He liked to observe emotions; they were like red lanterns strung along the dark unknown of another's personality, marking vulnerable points.

But I still wonder how it was possible, in those graceless years of transition, long ago, that men did not see whither they were going, and went on, in blindness and cowardice, to their fate. I wonder, for it is hard for me to conceive how men who knew the word "I," could give it up and not know what they lost. But such has been the story, for I have lived in the City of the damned, and I know what horror men permitted to be brought upon them.

Whatever their future, at the dawn of their lives, men seek a noble vision of man's nature and of life's potential.

Volumes can be and have been written about the issue of freedom versus dictatorship, but, in essence, it comes down to a single question: do you consider it moral to treat men as sacrificial animals and to rule them by physical force?

Men have been taught that it is a virtue to stand together. But the creator is the man who stands alone.

But I don't think of you. - Howard Roark

I have no faith at all. I only hold convictions.