Quotes on Halloween

Eddie discovered one of his childhood's great truths. Grownups are the real monsters, he thought.

I recollected one story there was in the village, how that on a certain night in the year (it might be that very night for anything I knew), all the dead people came out of the ground and sat at the heads of their own graves till morning.

You can discover what your enemy fears most by observing the means he uses to frighten you.

As a species we're fundamentally insane. Put more than two of us in a room, we pick sides and start dreaming up reasons to kill one another. Why do you think we invented politics and religion?

The bus roared through Indiana cornfields that night; the moon illuminated the ghostly gathered husks; it was almost Halloween. I made the acquaintance of a girl and we necked all the way to Indianapolis. She was nearsighted. When we got off to eat I had to lead her by the hand to the lunch counter. She bought my meals; my sandwiches were all gone. In exchange I told her long stories.

There is nothing funny about Halloween. This sarcastic festival reflects, rather, an infernal demand for revenge by children on the adult world.

Are you sure/That we are awake? It seems to me/That yet we sleep, we dream

Listen to them, the children of the night. What music they make!

There are nights when the wolves are silent and only the moon howls.

There are several good protections against temptation, but the surest is cowardice.

Where there is no imagination there is no horror.

Die, my dear? Why that's the last thing I'll do!

As for oblivion, well, we can wait a little while for that.

I would rather sit on a pumpkin and have it all to myself, than be crowded on a velvet cushion.

When someone asks, 'Does success make you into a monster?' I always say, 'No, it enables you to be a monster.'

There are very few monsters who warrant the fear we have of them.

The oldest and strongest emotion of mankind is fear, and the oldest and strongest kind of fear is fear of the unknown

Popular opinions, on subjects not palpable to sense, are often true, but seldom or never the whole truth.

The safest genre is the horror film. But the most unsafe - the most dangerous - is comedy. Because even if your horror film isn't very good, you'll get a few screams and you're okay. With a comedy, if they don't laugh, you're dead.

I walk up and down the rows. The heads look like rubber halloween masks. They also look like human heads, but my brain has no precedent for human heads on tables or in roasting pans or anywhere other than on top of a human bodies, and so I think it has chosen to interpret the sight in a more comforting manner. - Here we are at the rubber mask factory. Look at the nice men and woman working on the masks.

I must go in, the fog is rising.