The answer is no, " said Melody firmly. “Undeniably, indisputably, categorically no.

Beauty salons, like churches, are places where people tend to unburden themselves and bare their souls.

For years Melody had been making the same wish on every birthday candle, eyelash, wishbone, and shooting star that came her way, and now it had finally come true.

We go to Europe to be Americanized.

Virtue is but heroic bravery, to do the thing thought to be true, in spite of all enemies of flesh or spirit, in despite of all temptations or menaces.

You can't get a movie made without a script; it's the blueprint to your building.

I made a mistake when I said there were no gas chambers at Auschwitz.

When you go to Washington and get off at Union Station, as I sometimes do, and see the Capitol building, I get this hopeless feeling that comes over me.

There's an older generation that feels like they know what the future should be. And then there's your generation that may have an idea of what the future should be, but that could evolve.

Bankers are just like everybody else, except richer.

When I was 7, I came up with the idea of 'charm socks.' My mom would take me to buy bags of plastic charms, we would sew them on frilly white socks, and I sold them at school.

Everybody wants to fight me so they can be a superstar.

The more words you know the more clearly and powerfully you will think . . . and the more ideas you will invite into your mind.