You learn to move on without the people you love.

Disappear Here. The syringe fills with blood. You're a beautiful boy and that's all that matters. Wonder if he's for sale. People are afraid to merge. To merge.

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.

Not being able to find meaning can be just as powerful as finding meaning.

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

Look how black the sky is, the writer said. I made it that way.

If I want to write a movie, I'll write a screenplay, but if I have an idea for a book, it's something that I think can only be done novelistically.