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"I don't think I ever said, "I want to be an actress." But for Halloween, I dressed up as a movie star from when I was seven to when I was twelve. The costume was always a long dress, with makeup, and my hair curled, and jewelry on. And the movie star was always Jenny McCarthy. So right there you could see a little pattern."
"There are nights when the wolves are silent and only the moon howls."
"Stars, hide your fires; Let not light see my black and deep desires."
"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?"
"Eye of newt, and toe of frog, Wool of bat, and tongue of dog, Adder's fork, and blind-worm's sting, Lizard's leg, and owlet's wing, For a charm of powerful trouble, Like a hell-broth boil and bubble."
"Sit by my side, and let the world slip: we shall ne'er be younger."
"You'll see everything from gold teeth to hood ornaments. It's almost like Halloween during August."
"Make the world better."
"There is something haunting in the light of the moon."
"One need not be a chamber to be haunted."
"A grandmother pretends she doesn't know who you are on Halloween."
"An idea, like a ghost, must be spoken to a little before it will explain itself."
"There is something haunting in the light of the moon; it has all the dispassionateness of a disembodied soul, and something of its inconceivable mystery."
"The artist must bow to the monster of his own imagination."
"The worst thing about Halloween is, of course, candy corn. It's unbelievable to me. Candy corn is the only candy in the history of America that's never been advertised. And there's a reason. All of the candy corn that was ever made was made in 1911. And so, since nobody eats that stuff, every year there's a ton of it left over."
"My candle was nearly burnt out, when, by the glimmer of the half-extinguished light, I saw the dull yellow eye of the creature open."
"Die, my dear? Why that's the last thing I'll do!"
"the man in black travels with your soul in his pocket."
"Though this be madness, yet there is method in't."
"Look, there's no metaphysics on earth but chocolates."
