Picking a Partner
In the 25th anniversary edition of "The Fountainhead," Ayn Rand shares a story about her husband, Frank O'Connor: "I did not feel discouragement very often, and when I did, it did not last longer than overnight. But there was one evening, during the writing of The Fountainhead, when I felt so profound an indignation at the state of "things as they are" that it seemed as if I would never regain the energy to move one step farther toward "things as they ought to be." Frank talked to me for hour...
