• "Ask a toad what is beauty? . . . a female with two great round eyes coming out of her little head, a large fat mouth, a yellow belly and a brown back."
-- Voltaire

• "A thing of beauty is a job forever."
-- Milton Berle

• "To keep the heart unwrinkled...that is the triumph over age."
-- Thomas Bailey Aldrich

• "The key to success as a beauty surgeon is creating the perfectly natural result. If you can fake it, you've got it made."
-- Dr. Lucky Wellington

• "Always remember that you are absolutely unique. Just like everyone else."
-- Margaret Mead

• "The living are soft and yielding; the dead are rigid and stiff."
-- Lao Tzu

• "Never purchase beauty products in a hardware store."
-- Miss Piggy

• "Fashion can be bought. Style one must possess."
-- Edna Woolman Chase

• "You'd be surprised how much it costs to look this cheap."
-- Dolly Parton

• "I want to die young at a ripe old age."
-- Ashley Montagu

• "The abdomen is the reason why man does not easily take himself for a god."
-- Friedrich Nietzsche

• "I love performing surgery. It's the patients I can't stand."
-- Anonymous cosmetic surgeon

• "I used to be Snow White, but I drifted."
-- Mae West

• "It's a shallow life that doesn't give a person a few scars."
-- Garrison Keilor

• "The average woman would rather have beauty than brains, because the average man can see better than he can think."
-- Unknown

• "The only parts left of my original body are my elbows."
-- Phyllis Diller

• "I'm sure that love will never be a product of plasticity."
-- Frank Zappa

• "In the long run, we're all dead."
-- John Maynard Keynes

here's another iManuscript,
one that sometimes angers those readers
who can't seem to understand
that fiction is just that



[ Apples and Honey ]

Apples and Honey were genetic mirror-images of one another, identical twin sisters from Pasadena who, until the age of seventeen, seemed all but indistinguishable. Then Honey flew off her boyfriend's motorcycle and landed in the Huntington Hospital ICU . . .