“Be weary of the unknown inside of every human being, but do not fear it, embrace it.”

“... human beings fear the unknown. So, whatever's freaking you out, grab it by the balls and say hello.”

“There is a moon inside every human being. Learn to be companions with it.”

“Rearden sat in his room at the Wayne-Falkland Hotel, fighting an enemy more dangerous than weariness or fear: revulsion against the thought of having to deal with human beings.”

“Is it a war we are fighting, a war against health, against life and love? My condition is a torn condition. Every day, the dispensing of existence. I see the face of suffering. Its face is fierce and distant and ancient.There's probably a straightforward explanation for the impossible weariness I feel. A perfectly straightforward explanation. It is a mortal weariness. Maybe I'm tired of being human, if human is what I am. I'm tired of being human.”

“She feared the unknown as we all do, and her ignorance made the unknown infinitely vast.”