Quotes by : Michel Houellebecq

Life is painful and disappointing. It is useless, therefore, to write new realistic novels. We generally....

An entire life spent reading would have fulfilled my every desire; I already knew that at the age of....

That's precisely what's so extraordinary about you, you enjoy giving pleasure. Offering your body as....

Much, maybe too much, has been written about literature.

If you control the children, you control the future.

Much, maybe too much, has been written about literature. (I know better than anyone; I’m an expert....

For myself, I wouldn't have lifted a finger to own a Rolex, a pair of Nikes or a BMW Z3; in fact, I had....

Two years before, when the riots started, the media had had a field day, but now people discussed them....

People often say that the English are very cold fish, very reserved, that they have a way of looking....

He was a kind of éminence grise, a political leader, in a clandestine movement. Everyone knows there....