Where are the men?” the little prince at last took up the conversationagain. “It is a little lonely in the desert. . . ”“It is also lonely among men, ” the snake said.

A rock pile ceases to be a rock pile the moment a single man contemplates it, bearing within him the image of a cathedral.

You become responsible, forever, for what you have tamed.

I have lived a great deal among grown-ups. I have seen them intimately, close at hand. And that hasn’t much improved my opinion of them.

But the conceited man did not hear him. Conceited people never hear anything but praise.

It is the time you have wasted for your rose that makes your rose so important.

Well, I must endure the presence of a few caterpillars if I wish to become acquainted with the butterflies.

Sometimes, there is no harm in putting off a piece of work until another day.

The only things you learn are the things you tame

I did not know how to reach him, how to catch up with him... The land of tears is so mysterious.

When someone blushes, doesn't that mean 'yes'?

There is a river whose streams make glad the city of Love. Along that river is the tree of heaven.

When a man becomes a writer, I think he takes a sacred obligation to produce beauty and enlightenment and comfort at top speed.

Is it romantic or psychotic when I say I'll never let you leave me?

It's Godlike to love man - even in his sin - merely because he's man.

The only thing evil can’t stand is forgiveness.

In the beginning, I wanted to be successful. I wanted to make and have hit records. And I wanted everything that went along with it.

A big book is a hard thing to manage - I find the computer makes it easier to keep it in order, and to keep the old drafts (which I sometimes go back to) without drowning in paper.

When you are a hammer, all of your problems will look like nails to you.

Everybody ought to relish profitability.

I respect people who can do both careers, like Will Smith and a couple of other people who have done it, but I just don't know when they sleep.