Ocupation: Novelist
Life: February 2, 1905 - March 6, 1982
Birthday: February 2
Death: March 6
Roark smiled, "Gail, if this boat were sinking, I'd give my life to save you. Not because it's any kind of duty. Only because I like you, for reasons and standards of my own. I could die for you. But I couldn't and wouldn't live for you.
- Ayn Rand
source: Ayn Rand (2005). “The Fountainhead”, p.580, Penguin
topic: I Like You, Giving, Kind, Fountain Head, Gail, Howard Roark