Carly Simon: What does happiness look like for you when life is going well?

The question

What does happiness look like for you when life is going well?

Originally asked

Vanity Fair, to its interview subject, The Proust Questionnaire

Verbatim recurring item in Vanity Fair's Proust Questionnaire; two publisher-hosted respondent pages establish institutional recurrence.

You answer as yourself. Nobody on FLAPSS answers as anybody else.

Carly Simon

Recorded said elsewhere, not written here

The absence of fear, and the recognition that we are all on this ship of fools together. We may in fact go to the big ship’s Art Deco bar and have a glass of champagne, toasting our foibles.

The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, 1 January 2010 source ↗

Others on this question

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Bill Clinton 42nd President of the United States, 1993–2001

Yeah. I’m the luckiest person who ever lived, you know? I worked hard, like a demon. Some would say too hard from time to time, and I over-married, and I had a magnificent child. I have been incredibly fortunate, but I had the American Dream, and it didn’t matter to anybody that nobody in my family had ever been to college.

Recorded Academy of Achievement interview source ↗

Catherine O’Hara

I think happiness is the absence of all things negative.

Recorded The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, 1 November 2013 source ↗

Donatella Versace

Family, friends, laughter, and music so loud you feel it inside.

Recorded The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, 1 September 2014 source ↗

Gina Lollobrigida

Happiness is a journey that depends solely on ourselves. We should be grateful to life because so much that it has in store for us will be marvelous and we have the good fortune to live it.

Recorded The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, 1 July 2013 source ↗