“I dont work with collectives. I don't consult, i don't co-operate, I don't collaborate.”

“Don't worry. They're all against me. But I have one advantage: they don't know what they want. I do.”

“I don't want to see you. I don't like you. I don't like your face. You look like an insufferable egotist. You're impertinent. You're too sure of yourself. Twenty years ago I would have punched your face with the greatest of pleasure.”

“But I don't think of you.(Howard Roark)”

“I don't build in order to have clients. I have clients in order to build!":”

“I don't wish to be the symbol of anything. I'm only myself.”

“Oh, but I am quite resigned to taking second place in the shadow of my husband. I am humbly aware that the wife of a great man has to be contented with reflected glory - don't you think so Miss Taggart?" "No," said Dagny, "I don't.”