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

I admit that invective is one of my pleasures. This only brings me problems in life, but that's it. I attack, I insult. I have a gift for that, for insults, for provocation. So I am tempted to use it.

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.

The most stupid religion is Islam.

You can't be a crazy rebel in the face of death, it's not a fitting attitude.

I think it's more difficult to live without a religion, definitely.

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.

Islam is a dangerous religion.