Money demands that you sell, not your weakness to men's stupidity, but your talent to their reason.
Ayn RandA story is an end in itself. It is not written to teach, sell, explain or destroy anything. It is not written even to entertain. It is written as a man is born - an organic whole, dictated only by its own laws and its own necessity - an end in itself, not a means to an end.
Ayn RandThe alleged short-cut to knowledge, which is faith, is only a short-circuit destroying the mind
Ayn Rand