Everyone has the right to make his own decisions, but none has the right to force his decision on others.

It is a sin to write this.

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

Let us destroy, but don't let us pretend that we are commiting an act of virtue.

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

The writer who develops a beautiful style, but has nothing to say, represents a kind of arrested esthetic development; he is like a pianist who acquires a brilliant technique by playing finger-exercises, but never gives a concert.

The conservatives want to rule man's consciousness; the liberals, his body.