- The Fox: It's only with the heart that one can see clearly. What's essential, is invisible to the eye.
- [the pilot has drawn him a picture]
- The Little Prince: Oh no, I don't want an elephant inside a boa constrictor. Boa constrictors are dangerous and an elephant is very cumbersome. Where I come from, everything is very small. Will you draw me a sheep?
- The Pilot: Over the years, I came to know a great many grownups. My opinion of them never improved. In time, I stopped showing my drawing, and never again mentioned boa constrictors, elephants, or stars - instead, I would talk about golf, money, politics, and neckties, and everyone was pleased to have met such a sensible man.
- The Little Prince: Somewhere my flower's up there. It's a flower and in one moment all the stars will go dark.
- [first lines]
- The Pilot: One day when I was six years old, I saw a magnificent picture in a nature book about the primeval forest. It was picture of a boa constrictor swallowing an animal. I'm trying to make a sketch of it to show you. Under this picture it said: Boa constrictors swallow their prey whole without chewing it. There. "And then remain stationary for six months digesting it." I pondered that deeply. And after some work, I succeeded in making my first drawing. I called it drawing number one.