“This is why you can never reason true Christians out of the faith. It's not, as the adage has it, because they were never reasoned into it - many were - it's that faith is a logical door which locks behind you. What looks like a line of thought is steadily warping.” LooksReasonChristianLinesBehindsDoorsLogicalLocksAdagesBehind You Book:Pulphead: Essays Source: Pulphead: Essays
“The heart of Paris is like nothing so much as the unending interior of a house. Buildings become furniture, courtyards become carpets and arrases, the streets are like galleries, the boulevards conservatories. It is a house, one or two centuries old, rich, bourgeois, distinguished. The only way of going out, or shutting the door behind you, is to leave the centre.” WayHeartTwoHouseBehindsRichDoorsStreetsCenturyBuildingParisGoing OutCentreInteriorsFurnitureCarpetDistinguishedGalleryBehind YouBourgeoisUnendingBoulevardConservatory Book:Keeping a Rendezvous Source: Keeping a Rendezvous
“As a fiction writer, that's been a preoccupation of mine: Can you really just close the door and leave the past back there behind you, or is the door going to blow open at some point?” PastBehindsFictionDoorsMinesBlowBehind YouPreoccupationFiction WritersLeaving The Past Author:Dani Shapiro