The Fountainhead

“I could die for you. But I couldn't, and wouldn't, live for you.”

“Freedom (n.): To ask nothing. To expect nothing. To depend on nothing.”

“To sell your soul is the easiest thing in the world. That's what everybody does every hour of his life. If I asked you to keep your soul - would you understand why that's much harder?”

“And what, incidentally, do you think integrity is? The ability not to pick a watch out of your neighbor's pocket? No, it's not as easy as that. If that were all, I'd say ninety-five percent...”

“I love you so much that nothing can matter to me - not even you...Only my love- not your answer. Not even your indifference”

“Listen to what is being preached today. Look at everyone around us. You've wondered why they suffer, why they seek happiness and never find it. If any man stopped and asked himself whether h...”

“I often think that he's the only one of us who's achieved immortality. I don't mean in the sense of fame and I don't mean he won't die someday. But he's living it. I think he is what the con...”

“He wanted nothing, for the time being, except to understand .... Without advice, assistance or plan, he began reading an incongruous assortment of books; he would find some passage which he...”

“Why have you been staring at me ever since we met? Because I’m not the Gail Wynand you’d heard about. You see, I love you. And love is exception-making. If you were in love you’d want to be...”

“[Dean] “My dear fellow, who will let you?” [Roark] “That’s not the point. The point is, who will stop me?”