Maybe I shouldn't have told you––about it being electrical.— She put her hand out, touched his arm; she felt guilty, seeing the effect it had on him, the change."No, Rick said. "I'm glad to know. Or rather––— He became silent. —I'd prefer to know.

The first duty in life is to be as artificial as possible. What the second duty is no one has yet discovered.

A cynic might suggest as the motto of modern life this simple legend-just as good as the real.

Natural beauty is essentially temporary and sad; hence the impression of obscene mockery which artificial flowers give us.

To know only artificial night is as absurd and evil as to know only artificial day

Ours is the age of substitutes: instead of language, we have jargon; instead of principles, slogans; and, instead of genuine ideas, Bright ideas.