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“What is the therapeutic path? Is there one? How can we remedy a wound the size of existence? Of course, total recall— ecphoric excavation to the point of obsidian and diamantine repose—is the only therapeutic route. When presented with an infection such as a brain, eudemonia and euthanasia converge.”
― Thomas Moynihan, Spinal Catastrophism: A Secret History

“El amor de los padres a sus hijos es algo constatable, es una suerte de fenómeno natural, sobre todo en las mujeres; pero los hijos no corresponden nunca a este amor y nunca son dignos de recibirlo, el amor de los hijos a sus padres es absolutamente contra natura.”
― Michel Houellebecq, Aniquilación

“The whole point of bureaucracy is to reduce the possibilities of your life to the greatest possible degree when it doesn’t simply succeed in destroying them; from the bureaucratic point of view, a good citizen is a dead citizen.”
― Michel Houellebecq, Serotonin

“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