“but i've slammed the door to my inner self; if he ever wants to force the lock again, he'll have to use a harder crowbar!”

“Then again, he supposed the healing process, in contrast to trauma, was gentle and slow… The soft closing of a door, rather than a slam.- John”

“To keep up appearances, I stomp my room and slam the door.”

“The way the neurotic sees it: bars on his door mean that he's locked in; bars on your door mean that he's locked out.”

“When God closes one door, He slams another in your face”

“My door was never locked,
Until one day a trigger come cocking.
(But now I've started learning how,)
I keep it shut.”

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

“I lock my door upon myself,
And bar them out; but who shall wall
Self from myself, most loathed of all?”

“People stay married because they want to, not because the doors are locked.”

“A man forced to spend his life without ever having the right, without ever finding the time, to shut himself up all alone, no matter where, to think, to reflect, to work, to dream? Ah! my dear boy, a key, the key of a door which one can lock — this is happiness, mark you, the only happiness!”