Your Egoist

The human being by nature and necessity is neither egoist nor altruist; he trims a difficult course between the two; for the most part we are, within the limits of our powers of expression, egotists, and our desire is to think and if possible talk and write about this marvellous experiment of ourselves, with all the world—or as much as we can conveniently assemble—for audience.

H.G. Wells, from his introduction to W.N.P. Barbellion’s Journal of a Disappointed Man (1919)