The Fountainhead

by Ayn Rand

“Happiness? But that is so middle-class. What is happiness? There are so many things in life so much more important than happiness.”

How can we know who reads our stuff? That’s what makes it so interesting. All those strangers we’ve never seen before, have never spoken to, or can’t speak to—and here’s this paper where they can read our answer, if we want to give an answer.

there is a stage of worship which makes the worshiper himself an object of reverence.

He loved the wheel of a car as he loved his desk in the office of the Banner: both gave him the same sense of a dangerous monster let loose under the expert direction of his fingers.

I need a prestige I don’t deserve for an achievement I didn’t accomplish to save a name I haven’t earned the right to bear.