Answers To The Proust Questionnaire

 

What is your idea of perfect happiness?
When God is happy with me

What is your most marked characteristic?
My height

What do you consider your greatest achievement?
The books I've written

What is your greatest fear?
The death of the people I love most

What historical figure do you most identify with?
C.S. Lewis

Which living person do you most admire?
Anyone who is the best in their field

Who are your heroes in real life?
Kind, generous-hearted pastoral folk. And people who have given their lives in battle to protect our freedoms

What is the trait you most deplore in yourself?
I asked my wife what is my most deplorable trait, and she says I don't have any. She's a great judge of character, so I'll settle for that. Haha! If I'm being less generous, I'd say my getting frustrated and uncharitable when I think people are wrong but won't budge on it or (in my view) yield to reason 

What is the trait you most deplore in others?
Arrogant foolishness with an unwillingness to learn

What is your favourite journey?
Our daily road to increased wisdom and knowledge

What do you consider the most overrated virtue?
Social justice, and striving for equality

What talent would you most like to have?
I would like to be able to play musical instruments

Which word or phrases do you most overuse?
"Through the lens of"

What is your greatest regret?
Things I didn't do, that would have benefitted me later in life

What is your current state of mind?
Exhilarated, fulfilled and hopeful

If you could change one thing about your family, what would it be?
I wish my dad didn't have dementia

What is your most treasured possession?
Anything my wife has written to me or bought for me as a gift. The memory sticks with my life's writing on them are pretty treasured too

What do you regard as the lowest depth of misery?
It would be living a lonely life without purpose and hope

Where would you like to live?
Primrose Hill

What is your favourite occupation?
Anything you can do that you love, and at the same time makes a big difference in people's lives

What is the quality you most like in a man?
A strong character who is secure in himself and loves the truth

What is the quality you most like in a woman?
Kind, gentle, strong, witty, intelligent and loves the truth

What is your motto?
I don't have one, but if I did it would be something like; Love the truth, and every other good quality falls into place