There's nothing I'm afraid of like scared people.

I have this fear of falling in front of large groups of people. That's why I tend not to wear heels.

At least we know we tend to be afraid. If you object to my plural noun, I'll retract it.

The trouble with most people is that they quit before they start.

It rubs me the wrong way, a camera . . . It's a frightening thing . . . Cameras make ghosts out of people.

We were also told that the Russians could be parachuting from planes over our town at any time. These were the same Russians that my uncles had fought alongside only a few years earlier. Now they had become monsters who were coming to slit our throats and incinerate us. It seemed peculiar. Living under a cloud of fear like this robs a child of his spirit. It's one thing to be afraid when someone's holding a shotgun on you, but it's another thing to be afraid of something that's just not quite real.