“If you watch a scary movie together, then the scariness is cut in half!”
“You couldn’t really tell people you weren’t out performing your civic duties because you were too busy raising the dead.”
“Psychoanalysis has taught that the dead – a dead parent, for example – can be more alive for us, more powerful, more scary, than the living. It is the question of ghosts.”
“Look, this is just the cemetery. It's got bylaws and things! It's not Transylvania! There's just dead people here! That doesn't make it scary, does it? Dead people are people who were living once! You wouldn't be so worked up if there were living people buried here, would you?”
“The dead aren't scary. They are just sad.”