 | What is your earliest memory?
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 | Who were your childhood playmates? What did you play?
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 | What toys do you recall most fondly?
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 | What can you tell us about your family?
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 | What was primary school like? What teachers and classmates do you recall most vividly?
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 | What characters, famous people, or heroes did you identify with as a child?
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 | How complicated was your transition to adulthood?
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 | What can you tell us about your discovery of sex?
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 | Did you always know what you wanted to be? How did you discover your calling?
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 | How many times have you found the love of your life? What about unrequited love?
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 | What was your first job? How did your first work experience turn out?
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 | What do you consider the most important projects or businesses you have been involved in.
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 | Who have been the key people along your professional path; people who have believed in you and given you opportunities?
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 | Cities, neighborhoods, and houses where you have lived: how have they marked the phases of your life?
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 | Have you ever "come out of a closet" of some sort? What challenges have you had to overcome?
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 | What are the greatest successes and the major failures of your life?
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 | In the lowest moments, what kept you afloat?
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 | What do you give thanks to life for? What do you think you have had good luck in, and what not?
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 | What was the best time in your life?
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 | If you write your memoirs someday, what will be the title?
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 | What are the things that you definitely want to do before dying?
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