"It's not me who's strange, it's the world around me. Do you really want to buy yourself a Ferrari cabriolet? A holiday home in Deauville, which will only get burgled anyway? To work ninety hours week until you're sixty? To pay half of everything you earn in tax to finance military operations in Kosovo, or recovery plans for the inner cities? We're happy here, we have everything we need in life. The only thing the Western world has to offer is designer products. If you believe in designer products, stay in the West."

- Michel Houellebecq, Platform