“ I want to sleep with you. Now, tonight, and at any time you may care to call me. I want your naked body, your skin. your mouth, your hands...—I want you like an animal...or a whore. Ayn Rand
“ She had nothing to hide from him, nothing to keep unstated, everything was granted, answered, found. Ayn Rand
“ A man’s spirit is his self. That entity which is his consciousness. To think, to feel, to judge, to act are functions of the ego. Ayn Rand
“ When they lay in bed together it was—as it had to be, as the nature of the act demanded—an act of violence. It was surrender, made the more complete by the force of their resistance. It was an act of… Ayn Rand
“ How did you know what's been killing me? Slowly, for years, driving me to hate people when I don't want to hate... Have you felt it, too? Have you seen how your best friends love everything about you-… Ayn Rand
“ I don’t make comparisons. I never think of myself in relation to anyone else. I just refuse to measure myself as part of anything. I’m an utter egotist. Ayn Rand
“ I recognize no obligations toward men except one: to respect their freedom and to take no part in a slave society. Ayn Rand
“ Men have been taught that it is a virtue to agree with others. But the creator is the man who disagrees. Men have been taught that it is a virtue to swim with the current. But the creator is the man w… Ayn Rand
“ What in hell are you really made of, Howard? After all, it's only a building. It's not the combination of holy sacrament, Indian torture, and sexual ecstasy that you seem to make of it.Isn't it? Ayn Rand
“ She wondered why she had never noticed that she did not know his name and why she had never asked him. Perhaps because she had known everything she had to know about him from that first glance. Ayn Rand
“ It’s a law of survival, isn’t it?—to seek the best. I didn’t come for your sake. I came for mine. Ayn Rand
“ I’ll listen if you want me to... But I think I should tell you now that nothing you can say will make any difference. If you don’t mind that, I don’t mind listening. Ayn Rand
“ And isn’t that the root of every despicable action? Not selfishness, but precisely the absence of a self. Look at them. The man who cheats and lies, but preserves a respectable front. He knows himself… Ayn Rand
“ [Howard Roark] was asked for a statement, and he received a group of reporters in his office. He spoke without anger. He said:'I can't tell anyone anything about my building. If I prepared a hash of w… Ayn Rand
“ What would happen to the world without those who do, think, work, produce? Those are the egotists. You don’t think through another’s brain and you don’t work through another’s hands. When you suspend… Ayn Rand
“ His face was like a law of nature—a thing one could not question, alter or implore. It had high cheekbones over gaunt, hollow cheeks; gray eyes, cold and steady; a contemptuous mouth, shut tight, the… Ayn Rand
“ All that which proceeds from man’s independent ego is good. All that which proceeds from man’s dependence upon men is evil. Ayn Rand
“ I think the only cardinal evil on earth is that of placing your prime concern within other men. I’ve always demanded a certain quality in the people I liked. I’ve always recognized it at once—and it’s… Ayn Rand
“ The egotist in the absolute sense is not the man who sacrifices others. He is the man who stands above the need of using others in any manner. He does not function through them. He is not concerned wi… Ayn Rand
