The question
What do you fear most?Originally asked
Vanity Fair, to its interview subject, The Proust Questionnaire
The exact prompt is fixed in Vanity Fair's Proust Questionnaire and independently sustained in The Guardian's The Q&A over multiple decades.
You answer as yourself. Nobody on FLAPSS answers as anybody else.
A world where greed rules.
Vanity Fair, The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, April 2020 source ↗
The fact that, until recently, “the end of the world” would have seemed pretentious and evasive, and now seems like the only possible answer.
I’m terrified of time. The people I love are getting older and time seems to be going faster and faster. It’s scary. I’d like it to slow down, please.
Waking up after a sleepover at John Waters’s house and finding my sleeping bag isn’t zipped up the same way as when I passed out. Or “President Palin.”
The death of my loved ones.
Two-faced phony-baloneys.
I cut people off a lot when I talk. It’s a terrible habit.
My son. He is a teenager.
Long walks with my husband. Being with my family. Making music, and writing when songs just fall together. And maybe a cannoli. Just one.
I’ve constantly been changing myself my whole life. I am what you would call “a piece of work” in progress.
At a function for the True Colors Fund, where formerly homeless gay and transgender kids were telling their stories. It was heartbreaking.
Sophia Loren, Fiona Allen, Meghann Fahy, Antonio Banderas, Marina Abramović, George Takei
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