Price. You're priceless.

Do you wear a diaphragm everywhere you go?' I want to scream, but stop myself because the idea really excites me.

I wasn't acting on passion. I was simply acting.

I have all the characteristics of a human being: blood, flesh, skin, hair; but not a single, clear, identifiable emotion, except for greed and disgust. Something horrible is happening inside of me and I don't know why. My nightly bloodlust has overflown into my days. I feel lethal, on the verge of frenzy. I think my mask of sanity is about to slip.

I went to college in Vermont, and then stayed in the East Coast.

I've forgotten who I had lunch with earlier, and even more important, where.

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.