Quotes About Michel Houellebecq

I admit that invective is one of my pleasures. This only brings me problems in life, but that's it. I attack, I insult. I have a gift for that, for insults, for provocation. So I am tempted to use it.

I'd say that the question whether love still exists plays the same role in my novels as the question of God's existence in Dostoevsky.

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

Rumor had it that he was homosexual; in reality, in recent years, he was simply a garden-variety alcoholic.

Aggression often masks a desire to seduce – I'd read that in Boris Cyrulnik, and Boris Cyrulnik isn't fucking around.

That old queer Nietzsche had it right: Christianity was, at the end of the day, a feminine religion.

La desgracia sólo alcanza su punto más alto cuando hemos visto, lo bastante cerca, la posibilidad práctica de la felicidad.

during a press conference he declared (to general bafflement) that he was profoundly influenced by distributism. He had actually said so before, several times, on the campaign trail, but since journalists have a natural tendency to ignore what they don't understand, no one had paid attention and he'd let it drop. Now

Je veux penser à toi, Arthur Schopenhauer, / Je t'aime et je vois dans le reflet des vitres, / Le monde est sans issue et je suis un vieux pitre, / Il fait froid. Il fait très froid. Adieu la Terre

The most undesirable side effects most frequently observed in the use of Captorix were nausea, loss of libido and impotence. I have never suffered from nausea.

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

Through all the years of my sad youth Huysmans remained a companion, a faithful friend; never once did I doubt him