I think that if I am notorious, it is because other people have decided that this is how I should be. — Michel Houellebecq Copy Share Image
I think that if writers don't speak about real life, it's because they don't know it. — Michel Houellebecq Copy Share Image
Why am I popular? I don't know. Is it a mistake? I should think it's a mistake somewhere. — Michel Houellebecq Copy Share Image
In my own writing, I think of myself as a realist who exaggerates a little. — Michel Houellebecq Copy Share Image
Those who think they know me are simply lacking in information. — Michel Houellebecq Copy Share Image
I think it's more difficult to live without a religion, definitely. — Michel Houellebecq Copy Share Image
I tend to think that good and evil exist and that the quantity in each of us is unchangeable. The moral character… — Michel Houellebecq Copy Share Image
I want to be loved despite my faults. It isn't exactly true that I'm a provocateur. A real provocateur is someone who… — Michel Houellebecq Copy Share Image
When we think about the present, we veer wildly between the belief in chance and the evidence in favour of determinism. When… — Michel Houellebecq Copy Share Image
You know, you don't have to have permanent opinions. You can think, every morning, 'I love the world' and go to bed… — Michel Houellebecq Copy Share Image
I think she is going to find you too old... Yes that was it, the moment she said it I knew it… — Michel Houellebecq Copy Share Image
I think it's more difficult to live without a religion, definitely. — Michel Houellebecq Copy Share Image
I think that if writers don't speak about real life, it's because they don't know it. — Michel Houellebecq Copy Share Image
“In my life, I had known suffering, oppression, anxiety; I had never known boredom. I could see no objection to the endless, imbecile repetition… — Michel Houellebecq Copy Share Image
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… — Michel Houellebecq Copy Share Image
“... I spent whole afternoons at Bon Marché looking at pullovers, there was no sense in going on like that.” — Michel Houellebecq Copy Share Image
I've lived so little that I tend to imagine I'm not going to die; it seems improbable that human existence can be reduced to… — Michel Houellebecq Copy Share Image
Rumor had it that he was homosexual; in reality, in recent years, he was simply a garden-variety alcoholic. — Michel Houellebecq Copy Share Image
“He doesn't know it yet, but the infinity of childhood is brief.” — Michel Houellebecq Copy Share Image
“Olga was nice, Olga was nice and loving, Olga loved him, he repeated to himself with a growing sadness as he also realised that… — Michel Houellebecq Copy Share Image
“The problem is, it's just not enough to live according to the rules. Sure, you manage to live according to the rules. Sometimes it's… — Michel Houellebecq Copy Share Image
“Life sometimes offers you a chance, he thought, but when you are too cowardly or too indecisive to seize it life takes the cards… — Michel Houellebecq Copy Share Image
