Michel Houellebecq: The Map and the Territory

They really don't amount to much, anyway, human relationships.

Flowers are only sexual organs, brightly coloured vaginas decorating the surface of the world, open to the lubricity of insects.

What can you reply, in general, to human questions?

It was conceivably true, he thought, that France was a marvelous country - at least from the tourist's point if view.

It doesn't amount to much, generally speaking, a human life.

Sexuality is a fragile thing: it is difficult to enter, and easy to leave.