“All apartments are eligible as I ever heard tell of, just as all shopkeepers, barring that publican next door, are respectable.”

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

“The impossible lives next door to the possible; people ring its door bell by accident all the time.”

“Sleep with Seth Mortensen? Good grief. It was the most preposterous thing I'd ever heard. It was appalling. If I absorbed his life force, there was no telling how long it'd be until his next book came out.”

“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.”

“my sword reappeared in my pocket.
yeah, great timing. now i could attack the walls all i wanted. my cell had no bar, no window, not even a door”

“Peace, reconciliation and unity are sentiments meant not only for the person next door but for all people.”

“My God, what am I doing here? It's weird. How do you get to the Met? Money! Lots and lots of money! I can imagine Pavarotti next door at the improv going, "Two Jews walk into a bar…"”

“And I realized as I walked through the neighborhood how each house could contain a completely different reality. In a single block, there could be fifty seperate worlds. Nobody ever really knew what was going on just next door.”

“With a bit of luck, his life was ruined forever. Always thinking that just behind some narrow door in all of his favorite bars, men in red woolen shirts are getting incredible kicks from things he’ll never know.”