David Chang: 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.

David Chang

Recorded said elsewhere, not written here

Figuratively doing nothing.

Vanity Fair, The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, September 2019 source ↗

Others on this question

Clothes moths (and the imminent threat of world war three).

Recorded The Q&A, The Guardian, 15 August 2026 source ↗

Having no way of earning money.

Recorded The Q&A, The Guardian, 29 November 2025 source ↗

Getting to the end and thinking that I haven’t laughed enough.

Recorded The Q&A, The Guardian, 3 January 2026 source ↗

I’ll know it when I see it. Hello, Room 101.

Recorded Vanity Fair, The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, December 2014 source ↗

Good TV, good delivery, perfect AC. Literally doing nothing.

Recorded The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, 13 September 2019 source ↗

My intense self-loathing.

Recorded Vanity Fair, The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, September 2019 source ↗

Unwillingness to change.

Recorded Vanity Fair, The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, September 2019 source ↗

My wife, Grace.

Recorded Vanity Fair, The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, September 2019 source ↗

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