“If heaven had granted me five more years, I could have become a real painter.”

“There are a lot of things i wanted to do.I wanted to become a teacher,and an astronaught,and a baker…I wanted to go to a bunch of different donut shopsand ask for one of everything!And I wanted to tell the ice-cream manto give me one of everything, too!I wish i could have five lives!Then i could have been born in five different towns,and eaten five lifetime’s worth of food,and had five different careers,and…fallen in love with the same person, five times”

“In five years I want to go equally as far as I have come in the last five years. No, farther. Five years ago I embarked on a journey that led me to this point, so five years from now I’d like to be six years older.”

“I perhaps owe having become a painter to flowers.”

“Have you not noticed that the wild flowers are becoming scarcer every year? It may be that their wise men have told them to depart till man becomes more human. Perhaps they have migrated to heaven.”

“Grant me some wild expressions, Heavens, or I shall burst.”