The suspicious mind believes more than it doubts. It believes in a formidable and ineradicable evil lurking in every person.
But I love Halloween, and I love that feeling: the cold air, the spooky dangers lurking around the corner.
Our animal origins are constantly lurking behind, even if they are filtered through complicated social evolution.
You can find the entire cosmos lurking in its least remarkable objects.
There's no love more intense than the love we have for our kids - and where there is intense love, there is also intense fear lurking beneath the surface.
When you are a hero you are always running to save someone, sweating, worried and guilty. When you are a villain you are just lurking in the shadows waiting for the hero to pass by. Then you pop them in the head and go home... piece of cake.
There's something about shadows because you make your own mind up about what's lurking in them.
As a child, I felt that Hallowe'en was a time when creatures of the night suddenly came to life - we would turn off all the lights in the house and let flickering candlelight conjure up scary shadows and create the effect of imaginary figures lurking in dark corners.
The motives of these parents vary, many parents don't like the curriculum being taught to their kids, or are wary of the threat of peer pressure or the presence of drugs or violence lurking in too many of our schools today.
We live in a world of constant juxtaposition between joy that's possible and pain that's all too common. We hope for love and success and abundance, but we never quite forget that there is always lurking the possibility of disaster.