Vanity Fair & Proust

This seems very unfair. It seems that Bill O' Reilly and I have very similar answers in our Proust Match Off.  




Vanity Fair will soon offer an interactive way for you to figure out how your answers to the infamous  Proust Questionnaire stack up against the glitterati.  


Until then, here are my very own answers to Marcel Proust's questions:

What is your idea of perfect happiness?
Sitting with friends and loved ones on a deck overlooking the ocean, enjoying a great meal, a better view, and unconditional love. 


What is your greatest fear?
That life will pass me by and I will not have not accomplished everything I set out to do.


What is the trait you most deplore in yourself?
Selfishness. 


What is the trait you most deplore in others?
Tightfistedness. 


What living person do you most admire?
My father. 


What is your greatest extravagance?
Buying a cocktail on a short flight.


What is your current state of mind?
Calm before the storm.


What do you consider the most overrated virtue?
Fidelity. 


Which living person do you most despise?
People who think Michael Vick did nothing wrong.


What is the quality you most like in a woman?
The ability to rally.


Which talent would you most like to have?
To woo a constituency enough to vote for me.


What is the quality you most like in a man?
Integrity. 


What or who is the greatest love of your life?
The man who won't let me have my way.


When and where were you happiest? 
I am always happiest the day after a bad storm. 


What is your most marked characteristic? 
Charming you. Infuriating you. 


What do you consider your greatest achievement? 
Not marrying for the wrong reasons.

What is your greatest regret?
Talking back to my mother. 


How would you like to die?
The same way I was born. Yelling, kicking, and screaming.