We are prudent people. We are afraid to let go of our petty reality in order to grasp at a great shadow.

Tell me who admires and loves you, and I will tell you who you are.

My senses of space, of distance, and of direction entirely vanished. When I looked for the ground I sometimes looked down, sometimes up, sometimes left, sometimes right. I thought I was very high up when I would suddenly be thown to earth in a near vertical spin. I thought I was very low to the ground and I was pulled up to 3,000 feet in two minutes by the 500-horsepower motor. It danced, it pushed, it tossed. . . . Ah! la la!

When I find a woman attractive, I have nothing at all to say. I simply watch her smile. Intellectuals take apart her face in order to explain it bit by bit, but they no longer see the smile.

You cannot plant an acorn in the morning, and expect that afternoon to sit in the shade of an oak.

And the little prince broke into a lovely peal of laughter, which irritated me very much. I like my misfortunes to be taken seriously.

When one wishes to play the wit, he sometimes wander a little from the truth.