Michel Houellebecq is the most interesting, provocative and important European novelist of my generation. Period. No one else comes close. He has written two or maybe three great books, and his latest, The Map and the Territory, is one of them.

Michel Houellebecq is the most interesting, provocative and important European novelist of my generation. Period. No one else comes close. He has written two or maybe three great books, and his latest, The Map and the Territory, is one of them.

What does that mean know me, know me, nobody ever knows anybody else, ever! You will never know me.

What else is there to do in college except drink beer or slit one's wrists?

I do not feel I have a legacy to protect.

I think a lot of snowflakes are alike...and I think a lot of people are alike too.

There’s no use in denying it: this has been a bad week. I’ve started drinking my own urine.