Silence destroyed

Patricia Neal as Dominique Francon & Gary Cooper as Howard Roark

Dominique's word-barricades:

He stood looking straight at her. Their understanding was too offensively intimate, because they had never said a word to each other. She destroyed it by speaking to him.
"Why do you always stare at me"? She asked sharply.
She thought with relief that words were the best means of estrangement. She had denied everything they both knew by naming it. For a moment, he stood silently, looking at her. She felt terror at the thought that he would not answer, that he would let his silence tell her too clearly why no answer was necessary. But he answered. He said:
"For the same reason you've been staring at me".

Ayn Rand, The Fountainhead, (Penguin Books, 2007) p. 210.  

A view on mankind

Patricia Neal as Dominique Francon

Dominique Francon's view of mankind

"...As a matter of fact, one can feel some respect for people when they suffer. They have a certain dignity. But have you ever looked at them when they're enjoying themselves? That's when you see the truth."

Ayn Rand, The Fountainhead, (Penguin Books, 2007) p. 140.