Carrie Brownstein: What is your idea of perfect happiness?

The question

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.

Carrie Brownstein

Recorded said elsewhere, not written here

Reading a book with a dog asleep on either side of me.

The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, 21 August 2018 source ↗

Others on this question

I think happiness is the absence of all things negative.

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

A perfect flight to a perfect landing … with witnesses.

Recorded The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, 1 December 2010 source ↗

A family dinner. Candlelight. Lots of laughs.

Recorded The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, 3 June 2025 source ↗

Cooking dinner and hanging out with my kids.

Recorded The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, 25 October 2021 source ↗

Willful ignorance.

Recorded Vanity Fair, The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, August 2018 source ↗

Driving solo across the country from New York to Washington State.

Recorded Vanity Fair, The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, August 2018 source ↗

Tristan Harris.

Recorded Vanity Fair, The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, August 2018 source ↗

That it takes a week for someone to discover my body.

Recorded Vanity Fair, The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, August 2018 source ↗

Search the directory for somebody in particular.