I think my sensibility is very literary; all my books were built as books, and I wasn't thinking about them being movies..

Yes. Yes I am. I am a completely demented misogynist..

Do you wear a diaphragm everywhere you go?' I want to scream, but stop myself because the idea really excites me..

Baby, when you were young and your heart was an open book, you used to say live and let live. You know you did, you know you did, you know you did..

Regardless of the business aspect of things, is there a reason that there isn't a female Hitchcock or a female Scorsese or a female Spielberg? I don'….

I'm really shocked when critics get morally outraged at my fiction because they think I'm condoning what's going on. I never come in as the author an….

I want to moan and writhe with you and I want to go up to you and kiss your mouth and pull you to me and say "I love you I love you I love you" while….

I laugh maniacally, then take a deep breath and touch my chest- expecting a heart to be thumping quickly, impatiently, but there's nothing there, not….

Fear never shows up and the party ends early..

Are you as much of a criminal if you don't act when there's a crime taking place in front of you as you are one of the participants? That was somethi….

How could she ever understand that there isn't any way could be disappointed since I no longer find anything worth looking forward to?.

I'm into, oh murders and executions mostly. It depends..

I could stay living in this city if they just installed Blaupunkts in the cabs..

I have to return some videotapes.

Michel Houellebecq is the most interesting, provocative and important European novelist of my generation. Period. No one else comes close. He has wri….

You learn to move on without the people you love..

But this was what happened when you didn't want to visit and confront the past: the past starts visiting and confronting you..

Every book for me is an exorcism in some way or another, working through my feelings at the time..

Exploitation is a harsh word, I know that, but on a certain level, to me that is the central Hollywood story..

Our lives are not all interconnected. That theory is a crock. Some people truly do not need to be here..

There’s no grand plan. All I know is that I write the books I want to write. All that other stuff is meaningless to me..