"To all the readers who discovered The Fountainhead and asked me many questions about the wider application of its ideas, I want to say that I am answering these questions in the present novel and that The Fountainhead was only an overture to Atlas Shrugged. I trust that no one will tell me that men such as I write about don't exist. That this book has been written - and published - is my proof that they do". Ayn Rand