“I stared at them. Had that been their sales pitch? Look!We're really scary! Come be scary too!”

“You really are a scary man,no really! If I had boots I would be quaking in them.”

“I don't want to hear the scary part. But at the same time she does want to hear the scary part, everyone wants to hear the scary part, we're all mad here, and her mother really did say that if you told your dreams they wouldn't come true, which meant you were supposed to tell the nightmares and save the good ones for yourself, hide them like a tooth under the pillow.”

“I turned down Halloween parties every year, where people wanted zombies raised at the stroke of midnight or some such nonsense. The scarier my reputation got, the more people wanted me to come be scary for them. I'd told Bert I could always go and threaten to shoot all the partygoers, that'd be scary. Bert had not been amused. But he had stopped asking me to do parties.”

“Breaking paradigms is scary. Not breaking them is even scarier. Life is scary, but mostly we scare ourselves.***”

“It's okay to laugh at me, I only look scary.”