He wanted nothing, for the time being, except to understand.... Without advice, assistance or plan, he began reading an incongruous assortment of books; he would find some passage which he could not understand in one book, and he would get another on that subject.... There was no order in his reading; but there was order in what remained of it in his mind.

The Fountainhead (ed. Penguin, 2005) - ISBN: 9781101137185