Ayn Rand: INDUSTRY IS GREAT! Smokestacks, fuck, yeah!
Hank Reardon: Hi, I’m Hank Reardon! I’m thin and tall! I was just sexily brooding while watching metal being poured, and this makes me happy! Yay!
Lillian Reardon: Why weren’t you at dinner? You’d said you’d come.
Hank: You’re pretty, except your eyes are vacant! I was working! Yay! Working makes me happy!
Lillian: You said you’d be here.
Hank: Everyone should be happy because I’m happy! Waaaaaa! I don’t care that I disrespected your efforts and our friends and family by saying one thing and doing another! Waaaa! Can’t you see how much better I am than you! Waaaaa! But now I’m happy because I’m smarter than you! Yay!
Lillian: But you said you’d be here. And I think that psychologists call this a “mixed state” . . .
Hank: Waaaa! Now I’m not happy because you’re all worthless! Waaaa! I’m not responsible for keeping my word to you because you’re worthless! Waaaa! Good thing that soon I’ll meet some thin girl with nice legs and have rough sex with her because our IDEAS love each other! Yay!
Lillian: I’m not sure you know how sex works.
Philip: Who is John Galt?