The question
What thought won't let you sleep?Originally asked
The Guardian, to a different person each week, The Q&A
A long-running fixed question in The Guardian's weekly Q&A questionnaire.
You answer as yourself. Nobody on FLAPSS answers as anybody else.
Facebook and the need to pee.
The Q&A, The Guardian, 19 July 2025 source ↗
The X Factor (wondering about song choices) and watching TV. I’m a night person, and don’t go to sleep until 3am or 4am.
My wife cleaning.
My impotence in the face of war.
If I’ve spent money that I shouldn’t have or treated someone badly.
Never to have played at the National or the RSC.
To experience the utter powerlessness of locked-in syndrome.
Becoming doubly incontinent.
Glenda Jackson said I was an amateur during rehearsal for The White Devil at the Old Vic. I called her a cow, but that was inadequate.
On tour during Christmas vacation at Cambridge with its European Theatre Group, playing Shakespeare. I knew it was the best time of my life.
Every time I got a lucrative voiceover, I bought a picture. The most expensive was by James Gillray.
Marc Quinn, Arlene Phillips, Bozoma Saint John, Jake Shears, Adam Clayton, Sheryl Crow
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