Interviewer: You do not accept the existence of a god, a divine prime mover?
Ayn Rand: No.
Interviewer: Now the reason you don't is because you can't prove that such an entity or being or energy exists.
Ayn Rand: I can't nor can anyone else. There is no proof.
Interviewer: There is no proof so therefore you've concluded that there isn't one?
Ayn Rand: That's right.
Interviewer: You can't prove there isn't.
Ayn Rand: You are never called upon to prove a negative. That's a law of logic.
I have been a fan of hers for years and yet, this is the first time I have heard her speak ...>
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