She had caught the sound of suffering in the faintest exaggeration of evenness in his voice.

You knew better than that. And it's such an old one to me. My antisocial stubbornness is so well-known that I didn't think anyone would waste time trying to tempt me again.

There's so much nonsense about human inconstancy and the transience of all emotions. I've always thought that a feeling which changes never existed in the first place.

Any human being who accepts the help of another, knows that good will is the giver's only motive and that good will is the payment he owes in return.

Achieving life is not the equivalent of avoiding death.

Guilt is a rope that wears thin.

He said, looking down at her body, Dagny, what a magnificent waste!