Michel Houellebecq

Why am I popular? I don't know. Is it a mistake? I should think it's a mistake somewhere.

— Michel Houellebecq

“Everyday morality is always a blend, variously proportioned, of perfect morality and other more ambiguous ideas, for the most part religious. The…

— Michel Houellebecq

“No subject is more touched on than love, in the human life stories as well as in the literary corpus they have…

— Michel Houellebecq

The love of a dog is a pure thing. He gives you a trust which is total. You must not betray it.

— Michel Houellebecq

It is interesting to note that the "sexual revolution" was sometimes portrayed as a communal utopia, whereas in fact it was simply…

— Michel Houellebecq

If life is an illusion it's a pretty painful one.

— Michel Houellebecq

“We are probably wrong to suspect that each individual has some secret passion, some mystery, some weakness; if Jean-Yves's father had had…

— Michel Houellebecq

“What the boy felt was something pure, something gentle, something that predates sex or sensual fulfillment. It was the simple desire to…

— Michel Houellebecq

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

— Michel Houellebecq

“You too, you took an interest in the world. That was long ago. I want you to cast your mind back to…

— Michel Houellebecq

On Sunday morning I went out for a while in the neighbourhood; I bought some raisin bread. The day was warm but…

— Michel Houellebecq

“A cockroach appeared just as I was about to get into the bath. It was just the right time for a cockroach…

— Michel Houellebecq

The terrible predicament of a beautiful girl is that only an experienced womanizer, someone cynical and without scruple, feels up to the…

— Michel Houellebecq

Just like unrestrained economic liberalism, and for similar reasons, sexual liberalism produces phenomena of absolute pauperization. Some men make love every day;…

— Michel Houellebecq

Women are not stupid, but they were not clever enough to realise that feminism did not bring freedom, but the opposite. That's…

— Michel Houellebecq

In order to pass the time I told him the story of the German who ate the other German whom he’d met…

— Michel Houellebecq

This progressive effacement of human relationships is not without certain problems for the novel. How, in point of fact, would one handle…

— Michel Houellebecq

In reality, the monotheist texts preach neither peace, love nor tolerance. They are texts of hate.

— Michel Houellebecq

The Americans are completely stupid. The intellectual level in any single European country is higher than in America.

— Michel Houellebecq

“My life, my life, my very old one My first badly healed desire, My first crippled love, You had to return. It…

— Michel Houellebecq

When we think about the present, we veer wildly between the belief in chance and the evidence in favour of determinism. When…

— Michel Houellebecq

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

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

— Michel Houellebecq

“As soon as the genome had been cmpletely decoded (which would be in a matter of months) humanity would have complete control…

— Michel Houellebecq

“Jos hävittää moraalisuuden omasta persoonastaan, se on sama kuin karkoittaisi maailmasta moraalin, siinä määrin kuin se on itsestä kiinni.”

— Michel Houellebecq