Michel Houellebecq Quotes

I change my mind quite a lot about things, which isn't always a good thing.

Never think that lack of variability is stability. Don't confuse lack of volatility with stability, ever.

Decided only to be undecided, resolved to be irresolute, adamant for drift, solid for fluidity.

There is nothing constant in this world but inconsistency.

Clocks will go as they are set, but man, irregular man, is never constant, never certain.

It's not very fashionable, but I love life, and I believe that things disappear and reappear and nothing ever solidifies, no matter how middle-class, housebroken, staid, and solitary someone's life seems to be. That, I think, is what I'm writing about.

We've moved so much, and my life has been so inconsistent.

The clammy hand of consistency has never rested for long upon my shoulder.

His opinions are like water in the bottom of a canoe, going from side to side.

I'm a goofball. I'm always changing my mind.

You're always changing your thoughts about things.

Instability of temper ought to be checked when it disposes men to wander from one scheme to another: since such a fickleness cannot but be attended with fatal consequences.

Fluidity and discontinuity are central to the reality in which we live.

There's no point in making predictions. It's not worth speculating because nothing is set in stone and things change all the time in football. Today there are opportunities that no one knows if they will come round again in the future.

Life is full of change and uncertainty. We know this. We experience it on a daily basis.

Consistency is contrary to nature, contrary to life. The only completely consistent people are dead.

Life is never all one thing. It bounces around. Certainly, my own life has.

I know I'm incredibly unpredictable, and that's the only thing I'm sure of.

This plan is subject to change without notice as all plans are.

These are the instructions you are getting today. It is only fair to tell you, however, that they may be changed tomorrow. And ten days later they may be changed back to the instructions you are getting now.

There is nothing in this world constant, but inconstancy.

The British Government is a strange paradox, decided only to be undecided, resolved to be irresolute, adamant for drift, solid for fluidity, all-powerful to be impotent.

I like to keep my options open. I'm known for changing my mind.

I find it really hard to stick to one thing because I'm so fickle and I like to change my mind a lot.

Change is the only constant in this unsteady world.