To increase desires to an unbearable level whilst making the fulfillment of them more and more inaccessible: this was the single principle upon which Western society was based.
Michel HouellebecqI think that if I am notorious, it is because other people have decided that this is how I should be.
Michel HouellebecqThere is no point in asking me general questions because I am always changing my mind.
Michel HouellebecqThe Americans are completely stupid. The intellectual level in any single European country is higher than in America.
Michel HouellebecqA source of permanent, accessible pleasure, our genitals exist. The god who created our misfortune, who made us short-lived, vain and cruel, has also provided this form of meagre compensation. If we couldn't have sex from time to time, what would life be? A futile struggle against joints that stiffen, caries that form. All of which, moreover, is as uninteresting as humanly possible - the collagen which makes muscles stiffen, the appearance of microbic cavities in the gums.
Michel Houellebecq