280 Quotes by Michel Houellebecq

Those who think they know me are simply lacking in information.

The Americans are completely stupid. The intellectual level in any single European country is higher than in America.

I'd say that the question whether love still exists plays the same role in my novels as the question of God's existence in Dostoevsky.

Active people don't change the world profoundly; ideas do. Napoleon is less important in world history than Jean-Jacques Rousseau.

There is no point in asking me general questions because I am always changing my mind.

I think that if I am notorious, it is because other people have decided that this is how I should be.

I think poetry is the only domain where a writer you like can truly be said to influence you, because you read and reread a poem so many times that it simply drills itself into your head.

When a country is strong... it accepts any dose of pessimism from its writers.

In my own writing, I think of myself as a realist who exaggerates a little.