“Men at fortyLearn to close softlyThe doors to rooms they will not beComing back to.”
“Answers are closed rooms; and questions are open doors that invite us in.”
“Getting a room's not always enough. Sometimes you gotta close the door.”
“He imagined the door to a sad, empty room closing with a faint click, never to be opened again, and that calmed him a little.”
“Behind closed doors, good men are often more mischievous and exasperating than the truly bad ones. The difference is they're naughty because they're happy - boys at heart, no matter how many responsibilities they bear or how old they become.”
“I take back everything I ever said about that boy being clever." He turned around to face the bar while leveling an accusatory finger at the closed door. "That," he said firmly to the room in general, "is what comes of working with iron every day.”