Every time I close the door on reality it comes in through the windows.

The line uses a simple domestic metaphor—doors and windows—to describe the futility of denial. “Closing the door on reality” suggests an intentional act of avoidance: refusing facts, consequences, or uncomfortable truths. Yet reality is portrayed as persistent and adaptive, re-entering through “the windows” in less controllable ways: symptoms, crises, unintended outcomes, or the return of repressed knowledge. The quote’s force lies in its implication that avoidance doesn’t eliminate reality; it merely changes the route by which it asserts itself, often with greater disruption. Read psychologically, it aligns with ideas of repression and return; read pragmatically, it warns that problems ignored tend to resurface elsewhere.