Top 31 Quotes by Michel Houellebecq

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.

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.

I am for the muscles. I would like to have a lot of muscles, because women like it. I'm for bodybuilding, but it's very exhausting.

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

When you read the Koran, you give up. At least the Bible is very beautiful because Jews have an extraordinary literary talent.

The press may hate me, and I know my battles with them are not over, but that doesn't matter.

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.