"A few days after the Normandy landings, knowing only too well that he would be either assassinated by résistants or c…"

"Beating up Jews (by Jew I mean anyone with a Jew for a grandparent, even one!) won’t help, I’m sure, that’s just goin…"

"[T]here is no doubting where Céline stood on the central moral question of the age. In the struggle of democracy agai…"

"[B]eing on the wrong side of history also served him a heaping plate of material for new work after 1945 when, in a t…"

""Louis-Ferdinand Céline," taken from his grandmother's and mother's first names, with his first novel. His second nov…"

"To many Frenchmen, the Third Republic simply did not seem worth dying for, when so many of their fathers, brothers an…"

"God is being repaired."

"Experience is a dim lamp, which only lights the one who bears it."

"Anybody who talks about the future is a bastard, it's the present that counts."

"You can be a virgin in horror the same as in sex."