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 ↗
Almost anything seems super urgent to deal with at 4am. Then I can't remember it in the morning.
That to-do list I am supposed to get through but can’t summon the energy for in these weird, distracted times.
Nothing. I sleep like a log.
Questions that I can’t answer – and that’s what becomes a book.
When the media, en masse, reported my imminent demise.
Becoming doubly incontinent.
Short. Fat. Jewish.
To my mother for disappointing her. Mummy wanted me to be a different sort of person from who I am, but one can’t change oneself.
Never to have played at the National or the RSC.
On tour during Christmas vacation at Cambridge with its European Theatre Group, playing Shakespeare. I knew it was the best time of my life.
Marc Quinn, Arlene Phillips, Bozoma Saint John, Jake Shears, Adam Clayton, Sheryl Crow
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