"The term itself—my life—is a desperate overstatement."
— Don DeLillo
"Sometimes you get a flash of what you look like to other people."
— Zadie Smith
"Those who believe in telekinetics, raise my hand."
— Kurt Vonnegut
"In the end, we self-perceiving, self-inventing, locked-in mirages are little miracles of self-reference."
— Douglas R. Hofstadter
"There's good self-consciousness, and then there's toxic, paralyzing, raped-by-psychic-Bedouins self-consciousness."
— David Foster Wallace
"Masked, I advance."
— René Descartes
"If you can approach the world's complexities, both its glories and its horrors, with an attitude of humble curiosity, acknowledging t