I want to be loved despite my faults. It isn't exactly true that I'm a provocateur. A real provocateur is someone who says things he doesn't think, just to shock. I try to say what I think.
Michel HouellebecqThe Americans are completely stupid. The intellectual level in any single European country is higher than in America.
Michel HouellebecqTenderness is a deeper instinct than seduction, which is why it is so hard to give up hope.
Michel HouellebecqActive people don't change the world profoundly; ideas do. Napoleon is less important in world history than Jean-Jacques Rousseau.
Michel Houellebecq