The Book of I: An Illustrious Collection of Self Reflections

I think, therefore I am.-René Descartes. "I am out with lanterns, looking for myself."-Emily Dickinson. "It is as hard to see one's self as to look backwards without turning round."-Henry David Thoreau. "I am I because my little dog knows me."-Gertrude Stein. "I'm glad I'm not me."-Bob Dylan. "We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful about what we pretend to be."-Kurt Vonnegut. Are there many selves? Is there a true self? Are you the one you choose? Or are you the one that chooses you? These and other age-old questions are answered by this collection of pithy sayings and witty rejoinders from the likes of William Shakespeare, Emily Dickinson, Peter Sellers, Jean Paul-Sartre, Gertrude Stein, Carl Jung, Marilyn Monroe, and many more of history's most introspective-and, perhaps, narcissistic-writers, poets, philosophers, musicians, comedians, actors, and politicians. Conceived and edited by Joan Konner, the national bestselling author of The Atheist's Bible, this compendium reaches back across centuries of self-consciousness, self-doubt, and self-love to explore every facet of the idea of the self. The Book of I reminds us that we're not alone if we look in the mirror and wonder, "Who am I?"