Jean Poirier on why The Little Prince matters: grown-ups obsess over numbers and stuff instead of relationships. When people describe houses, they list bedrooms and pools, never the friendships that happen there. You can't buy friends.
Isn't there a line in there about you can't buy friends in a store? And that's what the little prince says. He's like grown ups only care about numbers. Because if I tell them I bought a nice house, it has red bricks, has two big trees, it has beautiful flowers and grass, they won't care. But if I tell them I bought a three bedroom with a two door garage, there's a pool, outdoor indoor pool. Now they're going to care. How do you feel when, what happened when you walked in the house? Well we were visiting and I walked and I just like oh I saw myself here. I saw myself having a family man, you love the house. Good, we'll make a nice dinner, we're going to go enjoy it you know instead of oh yeah, only two door garage. What are you going to do with Buddy? That's not what's happening. And that's what he says like all these grown ups buy everything but obviously you can't buy friends.
