Even if smog were a risk to human life, we must remember that life in nature, without technology, is wholesale death.

One method of destroying a concept is by diluting its meaning. Observe that by ascribing rights to the unborn, i.e., the nonliving, the anti-abortionists obliterate the rights of the living.

I think that when in doubt about the truth of an issue, it's safer and in better taste to select the least numerous of the adversaries.

Each man must live as an end in himself and follow his own rational self-interest.

The desire not to be anything is the desire not to be.

p.61 He [Roark] was usually disliked, from the first sight of his face, anywhere he went. His face was closed like the door of a safety vault; things locked in safety vaults are valuable; men did not care to feel that. He was a cold, disquieting presence in the room; his presence had a strange quality: it made itself felt and yet it made them feel that he was not there; or perhaps that he was and they weren't.

To say 'I love you' one must first be able to say the 'I.'