One evening he spoke. Sitting at her feet, his face raised to her,
he allowed his soul to be heard. "My darling, anything you wish, anything
I am, anything I can ever be... That's what I want to offer you -- not the
things I'll get for you, but the thing in me that will make me able to get
them. That thing -- a man can't renounce it -- but I want to renounce it --
so that it will be yours -- so that it will be in your service -- only for
you."
The girl smiled and asked: "Do you think I'm prettier than Maggie
Kelly?"
He got up. He said nothing and walked out of the house. He never
saw that girl again. Gail Wynand, who prided himself on never needing a
lesson twice, did not fall in love again in the years that followed.
-- Ayn Rand, "The Fountainhead"
I had no desire to be involved in the music busine but I saw that Jerry
Brandt, who was the head of the music department at William Morris, had a
limousine, and he was hanging out with Mick Jagger....
Phoebe: Yeah, so I said, "OK, relax please," y'know I mean, sex can be just
about two people right there in the moment, y'know, it's, if he wants to see
me again he can call and if not, that's fine too....
