Howard Roark: "My reward, my purpose, my life, is the work itself -- my work done my way! Nothing else matters to me!"
"There are periods of history when the visions of madmen and dope fiends are a better guide to reality than the common sense interpretation of data available to so-called normal minds."
"Some things can only be done without the mind's prudish interference; when the work is nasty, instinct is often best."
"In the beginning, the Universe was created. This made a lot of people angry, and has been widely regarded as a bad idea." - Restaurant at the End of the Universe
"There is a theory which states that if ever anyone discovers exactly what the Universe is for and why it is here, it will instantly disappear and be replaced by something even more bizarre and inexplicable." - Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
"He felt that his whole life was some kind of dream and he sometimes wondered whose it was and whether they were enjoying it." - Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy