15 Quotes by Jean-Christophe Valtat

When in doubt, do what they do in books, was one of Gabriel's secret mottos and - that rarest of things - a principle that he actually lived by.

... even if the previous millisecond is closer to us than the birth of the universe, it is equally out of reach.

A body is not unlike a pet -- stupid and dirty as it is, one becomes attached to it.

... Paris was no more Babylon than it was New Jerusalem. All cities worthy of that name were both: they were one because they were the other...

Brentford gave the polite smile of a man who talks daily with a living mechanical head about a city in the Arctic Circle governed by hermaphrodite Siamese twins born from a dead woman, and refrained from further comments about the probable and improbable.

Could it be, God forbid, that nationality is only a superficial, insignificant layer of the onion that is your being? What would you think of the man who would say of himself ‘I am an overcoat’ just because he happened to be wearing one?