“There comes a time in a man's life when to get where he has to – if there are no doors or windows – he walks through a wall.”

“When socialism comes through the door, employment jumps out the window.”

“There comes a time in a man's life when he hears the call of the sea. If the man has a brain in his head, he will hang up the phone immediately.”

“An actor entering through the door, you've got nothing. But if he enters through the window, you've got a situation.”

“The trickster, the riddler, the keeper of balance, he of the many faces who finds life in death and who fears no evil; he who walks through doors.”

“Boy, you knock on the devil's door and he will head slam you through the wall.”

“And he walks round blocks and blocks looking for the door of the humming tinsel windowed skyscraper, round blocks and blocks and still no door. Every time he closes his eyes the dream has hold of him, every time he stops arguing audibly with himself in pompous reasonable phrases the dream has hold of him. Young man to save your sanity you've got to do one of two things… Please mister where's the door to the building? Round the block? Just round the block… one of two unalienable alternatives: go away in a dirty soft shirt or stay in a clean Arrow collar. But what's the use of spending your whole life fleeing the City of Destruction? What about your unalienable right, Thirteen Provinces? His mind unreeling phrases, he walks on doggedly. There's nowhere in particular he wants to go. If only I still had faith in words.”

“When a man comes through
He must do what he's supposed to do
When a man comes through.
He can't do what everyone expects him to.”

“When God closes a door, he opens a window, but it's up to you to find it.”

“Oh, for the farm where a man is truly independent, and where he deals with fundamentals, where the changing seasons brings changed work, and a man is out of doors all the time. It is on the farm that a man can devote his life to his investment and see the improvement and growth from year to year…I enjoy thinking of such things and there is no doubt that I am a midwesterner through and through.”