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

If I were to command a general to turn into a seagull, and if the general did not obey, that would not be the general's fault. It would be mine.

If you love a flower that lives on a star, it is sweet to look at the sky at night. All the stars are a-bloom with flowers.

Freedom and constraint are two aspects of the same necessity, the necessity of being the man you are and not another. You are free to be that man, but not another.

Grown ups are certainly very strange.

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

Real love begins where nothing is expected in return.