“Mescalin opens up the way of Mary, but shuts the door on that of Martha.”
“Having words opened up a world of possibilities for Martha.”
“For each door of sadness that opens, there are a thousand means of shutting it...”
“This is the shade of difference: the door of the physician should never be shut, the door of the priest should always be open.”
“How is dear Charlotte?’ Celia asked sweetly, then launched into an account of how they’d been having their usual ‘Fucking shut up’, ‘No, you fucking shut up’, row a couple of evenings ago, when Yuri had opened the front door of their flat to scream up the stairs, ‘Why don’t both of you fucking shut up?”
“To leave a door shut that might be open is in my eyes some form of blasphemy.”