The 68+ Michel Houellebecq Quotes

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.

Polemical Debates Happen All The Time In France.

Using A Big Word Like 'plagiarism'... Always Causes Some Damage. It Will Always Do Lasting Damage, Like Accusations Of Racism.

Father Died Last Year. I Don't Subscribe To The Theory By Which We Only Become Truly Adult When Our Parents Die; We Never Become Truly Adult.

In My Own Writing, I Think Of Myself As A Realist Who Exaggerates A Little.

As 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.

In Reality, The Monotheist Texts Preach Neither Peace, Love Nor Tolerance. They Are Texts Of Hate.

Rumor Had It That He Was Homosexual; In Reality, In Recent Years, He Was Simply A Garden-variety Alcoholic.

The Press May Hate Me, And I Know My Battles With Them Are Not Over, But That Doesn't Matter.

When A Country Is Strong... It Accepts Any Dose Of Pessimism From Its Writers.

My Novels Are All Ideas.

I Think That If Writers Don't Speak About Real Life, It's Because They Don't Know It.