Top 31 Quotes by Michel Houellebecq

A reactionary is someone who wants to return to a previous state - that's never a possibility in my books. For me, everything's irreversible in the life of a society, as well as an individual's.

I tend to think that good and evil exist and that the quantity in each of us is unchangeable. The moral character of people is set, fixed until death.

I prefer reading to writing. Reading changes your world view. Writing changes absolutely nothing. Except, of course, when it makes you rich.

You know, you don't have to have permanent opinions. You can think, every morning, 'I love the world' and go to bed every night thinking, 'I hate the world.'

Using a big word like 'plagiarism'... always causes some damage. It will always do lasting damage, like accusations of racism.

I think that if writers don't speak about real life, it's because they don't know it.

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

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

Islam is a dangerous religion.

Women are not stupid, but they were not clever enough to realise that feminism did not bring freedom, but the opposite. That's why I'm glad feminism is dead.