…how difficult it is to remain just one person, for our house is open, there are no keys in the doors, and invisible guests come in and out at will.

—Czesław Miłosz, “Ars Poetica”

Perhaps home is not a place but an irrevocable condition.

—James Baldwin, Giovanni’s Room

The house is the same size as the world, or rather it is the world.

—Jorge Luis Borges, “The House of Asterion”