The Mercy & Judgment of God in the Secular City

Think about it: There is no experience you've had that you were not at the absolute center of. My natural default-setting is the certainty that situations are really all about me, about my hungriness and my fatigue and my desire to just get home and it's going to seem, for all the world, like everybody else is just in my way, and who are all these people in my way? Everything in my own immediate experience supports my deep belief that I am the absolute center of the universe.
— David Foster Wallace