"He doesn't know which of us I am these days, but they know one truth. You must own nothing but yourself. You must make your own life, live your own life and die your own death ... or else you will die another's." (... in original.) Alfred Bester, opening of "Fondly Fahrenheit."

A nonfiction example of "unreliable narrator" -- Picture in a National Geographic story on Saudi Arabia's Empty Quarter. The caption explained that this was a nomad of the Empty Quarter, entirely untouched by outside influences, cooking his rice over a bunsen burner.