Walker Percy Quote

One of the peculiar ironies of being a human self in the Cosmos: A stranger approaching you in the street will in a second's glance see you whole, size you up, place you in a way in which you cannot and never will, even though you have spent a lifetime with yourself, live in the Century of the Self, and therefore ought to know yourself best of all.

Lost in the Cosmos: The Last Self-Help Book (ed. Open Road Media, 2011) - ISBN: 9781453216347