“Nobody can open the gates of death without closing them again after him.”
“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.”
“For certain, neither of them sees a happy Present, as the gate opens and closes, and one goes in, and the other goes away.”
“To live without philosophizing is in truth the same as keeping the eyes closed without attempting to open them.”
“How pleased we are to have our eyes opened but how easily we close them again.”
“No one can persuade another to change. Each of us guards a gate of change that can only be opened from the inside. We cannot open the gate of another, either by argument or by emotional appeal.”