—Some people hold that "your views, I think" sometimes they say "it's rather selfish, it's not based on any emotional relationships between people", that "it's all going toward just one direction", and that "doesn't leave any room for emotional involvement".

—It depends what kind of emotions. Do you mean that all emotions are necessarily irrational?

—No.

—I don't. You see, it simply means that man has to be guided by reason, and if he chooses only rational values, he will not experience irrational emotions, then his emotions and his mind will be unified. I believe it's only a fully rational man that can feel profoundly, because he has no inner conflict.

- Ayn Rand. Ayn Rand on The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson | Oct. 1967.