Roark smiled, "Gail, if this boat were sinking, I'd give my life to save you. Not because it's any kind of duty. Only because I like you, for reasons and standards of my own. I could die for you. But I couldn't and wouldn't live for you.

“Since knowledge, thinking, and rational action are properties of the individual…”

“Since there is no such entity as 'the public,' since the public is merely a num…”

“The Argument from Intimidation is a confession of intellectual impotence.”

“And my happiness needs no higher aim to vindicate it. My happiness is not the m…”