Quotes About Houellebecq

The press may hate me, and I know my battles with them are not over, but that doesn't matter.

Ah, Houellebecq. I've only read him in English translations so I'm sure I'm not getting the full greatness of his work, but golly, he writes better sex scenes than anyone else alive.

You can't be a crazy rebel in the face of death, it's not a fitting attitude.

The world is mediocre," Jed finally said. "And the person who committed this murder has increased the mediocrity in this world.

In the presence of a reader of Teilhard De Chardin I feel disarmed, nonplussed, ready to break down in tears.

For my part, I had no objection to sex being subject to market forces.

According to him, then, I seem to be on the way to becoming an imbecile. It's a theory.

only literature can give you access to a spirit from beyond the grave – a more direct, more complete, deeper access than you'd have in conversation with a friend'.