The Fountainhead Happiness Quotes

This quiet scene of Mallory, Roark, Dominique, and Mike hanging out at the Stoddard Temple is one of the nicest scenes in the entire book. They're just being pals.

The idea of men spoiling things they create is definitely foreign to Roark and his crowd, who basically are what they create. And the union between who they are and what they do is what makes them happy.

Roark's idea of happiness as private becomes very political when put in opposition to Toohey's view on happiness as a sort of public commodity that should be shared and not experienced by one individual.