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.
Losing family, friends, and loved ones.
Vanity Fair, The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, September 2025 source ↗
Becoming deaf and blind, which is what happened to my father.
I never want to go back; I fought so much through my life, that I have to keep going forward.
That it takes a week for someone to discover my body.
Something happening to one of my children.
Gabby Giffords. She’s a survivor of gun violence and a relentless champion of sensible gun safety measures.
Being judgmental.
Being there for each other during good times and bad.
Procrastinating. I saved answering this questionnaire until the very last minute.
Playing the Cowardly Lion in our fourth-grade production of The Wizard of Oz. Thank you, Mr. Riccobono.
Jane Asher, John Waters, Joseph Fiennes, Marina Abramović, Seth Meyers, Marina Diamandis
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