“A woman's body is the gate to this life. A man's body is the gate to the next life.”
“If this was what Mikhail called opening the gate close to Zayvion’s body, I was going to kill a compass and a slide rule and send them through the gates of death to him.”
“That's why there are ten gates to pass through before you reach the garden. If life were easy there would be one gate. There would be no gates at all.”
“As this life is not a gate, but the horse plunging through it.”
“Where else is the gate of life if not in the eyes of your soul?”
“To every man is given the key to the gates of heaven. The same key opens the gates of hell. And so it is with science.”