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“Some Mondays at the very end of November or at the beginning of December one has, especially if one is single, the feeling of being sentenced to death.”
― Michel Houellebecq, Anéantir

“You don’t understand,’ Franz said patiently. ‘It’s not a particular art form, or manner, that interests me, it’s a personality, a view of the artistic gesture, of its situation in society. If you came here tomorrow with a simple sheet of paper, torn from a spiral notebook, on which you’d written “I don’t even know if I want to continue with art at all”, I would exhibit this sheet without hesitation. Yet I’m not an intellectual. But you interest me.”
― Michel Houellebecq, The Map and the Territory

“Moments happen or don’t happen, people’s lives are altered and sometimes destroyed by them, and what can one say? What can one do? Apparently nothing.”
― Michel Houellebecq, Anéantir

“Una mentira ideal consiste en la yuxtaposición de diferentes elementos de verdad entre los cuales se efectúan algunas elipsis; de hecho está compuesta esencialmente de omisiones, a veces con algunas exageraciones bien dosificadas”
― Michel Houellebecq, Aniquilación