I Wasn't Acting On Passion. I Was

Rock 'n' Roll. Deal With It.

When The Going Gets Tough, The Tough Go Drinking.

Greed Is Good. Sex Is Easy. Youth Is Forever.

Michel Houellebecq Is The Most Interesting, Provocative And Important European Novelist Of My Generation. Period. No One Else Comes Close. He Has Written Two Or Maybe Three Great Books, And His Latest, The Map And The Territory, Is One Of Them.

You Don't Market-research A Novel; You Really Are Writing It For Yourself. It's A Hobby, In Many Ways. The Problem Becomes What You Do When You're Confronted By Criticism. You Just Don't Listen To It.