“It's only when caterpillarness is done that one becomes a butterfly. That again is part of this paradox. You cannot rip away caterpillarness. The whole trip occurs in an unfolding process of which we have no control.”

“There is nothing more comfortable than a caterpillar and nothing more made for love than a butterfly. We need dresses that crawl and dresses that fly. Fashion is at once a caterpillar and a butterfly, caterpillar by day, butterfly by night”

“Children are caterpillars and adults are butterflies. No butterfly ever remembers what it felt like being a caterpillar.”

“We kill all the caterpillars, then complain there are no butterflies.”

“Since when does the butterfly ask about the caterpillar?”

“There is nothing in a caterpillar that tells you it's going to be a butterfly.”

“What a caterpillar calls the end of the world we call a butterfly.”

“How does one become a butterfly?" she asked.
"You must want to fly so much that you are willing to give up being a caterpillar.”

“What the caterpillar calls the end of the world, the master calls a butterfly.”

“The caterpillar does all the work, but the butterfly gets all the publicity.”