What is the quality you most like in a man?
Neglect. (now might not be the best time to answer a question like that)
What is the quality you most like in a woman?
Reject for social norms and a ridiculous sort of common-sense.
What do you most value in your friends?
Tolerance, enabling, overly thoughtful on our purposes, and sense of humor.
What is the trait you most deplore in yourself?
Indignance and Overindulgence.
What is your favorite occupation?
Seeking information philosophically and tangibly.
What is your idea of perfect happiness?
Workless days and smooth relationships. The equivalent of falling asleep.
What do you regard as the lowest depth of misery?
Loss, guilt, and shame followed by preoccupation on one's own loss, guilt, and shame.
In which country would you like to live?
Taking this question at face-value, I would say the US. Proust's own answer was very abstract, but I'm sticking with the fact that everything I know is here - the language, the customs, my family.
Who are your favorite writers?
Kafka. David Sedaris. Cintra Wilson. Tina Fey. David Russell.
Who are your favorite poets?
Hands down, only one: e.e cummings
Who is your favorite hero of fiction?
I'm modernizing this and choosing a movie character -- Tommy Corn in I Heart Huckabees
Who is your favorite heroine of fiction?
None other than Holly Golightly - although in the movie, she is by far more racially tolerant than in Capote's book
Who are your favorite composers?
Rachmaninoff (odd, I know) and the irrepressible Radiohead
Who are your favorite painters?
Warhol, Picasso, Magritte, Kahlo (and a few non-painting artists: Man Ray and Duchamp)
What are your favorite names?
Ruby, Ginger, Christian, Alexander, Nicolai, Annabella
What is it that you most dislike?
Obligation
Which talent would you most like to have?
The ability to transfer that which is in my head into its physical form (painting, music, etc.) successfully
How would you like to die?
Without bloodshed, without fear
What is your current state of mind?
Confusion in all areas of my life. Anger at past failures. Not focused.
What is your motto?
Do things because you want to, not because of what you might gain.