Last election shows that there's a big discrepancy between two parts of the country. That discrepancy also exists in France, but we've had the National Front for forty years, and it only took Trump one year to get elected. Very fast. That's the surprising thing. In France we thought everybody liked Obama, but maybe the media were lying. Maybe they didn't.
Michel HouellebecqAs a teenager, Michel believed that suffering conferred dignity on a person. Now he had to admit that he had been wrong. What conferred dignity on people was television.
Michel HouellebecqThe Americans are completely stupid. The intellectual level in any single European country is higher than in America.
Michel HouellebecqThe absence of the will to live is, alas, not sufficient to make one want to die.
Michel Houellebecq