A family dinner. Candlelight. Lots of laughs.
Recorded · Vanity Fair · 2025
The Proust Questionnaire
Vanity Fair, put to its interview subject
5 questions, 575 answers to them so far. Every one of them is asked here as itself, with the format it came from on the page. Nobody answers as anybody else.
What is your idea of perfect happiness?
The absence of fear, and the recognition that we are all on this ship of fools together. We may in fact go to the big ship’s Art Deco bar and have a glass of champagne, toasting our foibles.
Recorded · Vanity Fair · 2010
I’ve discovered that I have no happiness other than my dogs’. If they’re happy, I’m happy.
Recorded · Vanity Fair · 2022
Every question in this set
- What is your greatest fear? 256
- What do you value most in your friends? 65
- If you could change one thing about yourself, what would it be? 52
- How would you like to die? 44
- What is your idea of perfect happiness? 158
The number is how many answers are on the record here. A dash means nobody has answered it yet, which is an opening rather than a gap.