“Amusing and perfectly self-conscious charlatans.”
“There's good self-consciousness, and then there's toxic, paralyzing, raped-by-psychic-Bedouins self-consciousness.”
“Bones leaned back, studying me. I felt so self-conscious. If only I had a shield of makeup, some perfectly arranged hair... and oh yeah. Some panties.”
“We have not the remotest realistic inkling of a consciousness which is not self-consciousness.”
“Self-consciousness kills communication.”
“A general must be a charlatan.”