Source: Wintergirls
The Complete Neurotic's Notebook (1981), Neurotics and neurosis
“If your wife locks you out of the house, you don't have a problem with your door.”
Source: Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life
“Why do some memories bleed out of nowhere and others stay locked behind doors?”
Source: Vanishing Acts
“Unscrew the locks from the doors!
Unscrew the doors themselves from their jambs!”
Source: Leaves of Grass
“Attendants, will you please close and lock the doors?”
“don't be ashamed of
anything; I guess God meant it all
like
locks on
doors.”
“People are locking their doors and switching off their nervous systems.”
"Bobby Crawford"
Cocaine Nights (1996)
Context: Town-scapes are changing. The open-plan city belongs in the past — no more ramblas, no more pedestrian precincts, no more left banks and Latin quarters. We're moving into the age of security grilles and defensible space. As for living, our surveillance cameras can do that for us. People are locking their doors and switching off their nervous systems.
“First impression only opens the door, but does not lock it.”
“I'd have to lock the door of the paint room. He wouldn't allow anyone in. I was like a prisoner.”
1999, Cited by Amy M. Spindler
