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
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Novelist, essayist, memoirist, activist 1954Related quotes
On kissing scenes in films, as quoted in " You want to do sex in your house with your door open http://www.punemirror.in/pune/cover-story/You-want-to-do-sex-in-your-house-with-your-door-open/articleshow/49875892.cms" Pune Mirror (22 November 2015)

Variant: You build on failure. You use it as a stepping sone. Close the door on the past. You don't try to forget the mistakes, but you don't dwell on it. You don't let it have any of your energy, or any of your time, or any of your space.

AronRa vs Ray Comfort (September 17th, 2012), Radio Paul's Radio Rants

<p>¿Sabes que en las calles no hay nadie
y adentro de las casas tampoco?</p><p>Sólo hay ojos en las ventanas.
Si no tienes dònde dormir
toca una puerta y te abrirán,
te abrirán hasta cierto punto
y verás que hace frío adentro,
que aquella casa está vacía,
y no quiere nada contigo,
no valen nada tus historias,
y si insistes con tu ternura
te muerden el perro y el gato.</p>
Soliloquio en Tinieblas (Soliloquy at Twilight) from Estravagario (Book of Vagaries) (1958).

“You have to come to your closed doors before you’ll ever get to your open doors.”
Source: I Declare: 31 Promises to Speak Over Your Life