The question
What do you value most in your friends?Originally asked
Vanity Fair, to its interview subject, The Proust Questionnaire
A fixed Vanity Fair Proust Questionnaire item asked across its three-decade archive, with independent variants in friendship and profile interviews.
You answer as yourself. Nobody on FLAPSS answers as anybody else.
Investigative reporter and author; associate editor of The Washington Post
I don't know how to do it, but know that I love it.
N/A, N/A, Bob Woodward's Official Website, 1 June 2024 source ↗
I think I value the same things everyone does—loyalty, a sense of humor, the ability to make campaign contributions.
They’re wonderful people who seem to like me!
That they don’t die on me.
Their willingness to have me as a friend.
I don't know how to do it, but know that I love it.
Oh, yes, I had teachers at Wheaton. A community high school history teacher named Elizabeth Duncan who taught American history and was a great teacher. Very forceful, very insistent that we write essays to answer questions, and not short answers. Somebody who through force of personality made history interesting and important.
I don’t know whether I feel pride. I think pride is hubris. I think it is an emotion that if you bask in it, it’s like hate; it will destroy you. So I don’t make those kinds of assessments. I like what I do. I am repeatedly struck by how I have missed part of the story, always.
I studied history and English at Yale, which I attended on an NROTC (Naval Reserve Officer Training Corps) scholarship. After college I served in the Navy five years.
I don't know how to do it, but know that I love it.
I don't know how to do it, but know that I love it.
Elmore Leonard, Danielle Steel, Kurt Vonnegut, A.J. Jacobs, Barbara Taylor Bradford, Eugene Levy
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