Bill Moyers: What do you fear most?

The question

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.

Bill Moyers

Recorded said elsewhere, not written here

Democracy proves to be a Potemkin village and gross inequality becomes our permanent way of life.

Vanity Fair, The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, July 2011 source ↗

Others on this question

Jason Manford English comedian and singer

Wasting my life.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 8 July 2023 source ↗

Robert Carlyle Scottish actor

Losing my family in some way.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 23 February 2008 source ↗

Zadie Smith Novelist and essayist

Violent death. Death generally.

Recorded Vanity Fair, The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, November 2016 source ↗

Personal: health. Globally: nuclear weapons.

Recorded Vanity Fair, The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, March 2011 source ↗

A long summer’s evening on the front porch with my wife, Judith, watching the hawks circling overhead and the sun disappearing through the trees.

Recorded The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, 1 July 2011 source ↗

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