“A young man and woman walked past - a handsome young man and pretty young woman, the man in a seersucker suit and the woman in an old-fashioned summer dress - and they were walking a bit apart from one… — Peter Cameron Copy Share Image
People who have only good experiences aren't very interesting. They may be content, and happy after a fashion, but they aren't very deep. It may seem a misfortune now, and it makes things difficult, but well--it's easy to feel all the happy, simple stuff. Not that happiness is necessarily simple. But I don't think you're going to have a life… — Peter Cameron Copy Share
I suppose most people would think that it was wonderful, that the world is so varied, that there is something for everyone, and I… — Peter Cameron Copy Share Image
The first night Stephen and I slept together, he whispered numbers into my ear: long, high numbers -- distances between planets, seconds in a life. He spoke as if they were poetry, and they became poetry. Later, when he fell asleep, I leaned over him and watched, trying to picture a mathematician's dreams. I concluded that Stephen must dream in… — Peter Cameron Copy Share
Most people think things are not real unless they are spoken, that it's the uttering of something, not the thinking of it, that legitimizes… — Peter Cameron Copy Share Image
New York is strange in the summer. Life goes on as usual but it’s not, it’s like everyone is just pretending, as if everyone… — Peter Cameron Copy Share Image
I often feel like I want to think something but I can't find the language that coincides with the thoughts, so it remains felt,… — Peter Cameron Copy Share Image
“Most people think things are not real unless they are spoken, that it's the uttering of something, not the thinking of it, that legitimizes it. I suppose this is why people always want other people to say "I love you." I think just the opposite - that thoughts are realest when thought, that expressing them distorts or dilutes them, that… — Peter Cameron Copy Share
“... she had insisted on keeping the doors and windows shut, as if a sealed chamber could prevent death from entering, or life from… — Peter Cameron Copy Share Image
Dr. Adler had instructed me to always say whatever I was thinking, but this was difficult for me, for the act of thinking and the act of articulating those thoughts were not synchronous to me, or even necessarily consecutive. I knew that I thought and spoke in the same language and that theoretically there should be no reason why I… — Peter Cameron Copy Share
I hate stand-up comics; I think funny is something you are, not something you desperately try to be in front of a roomful of… — Peter Cameron Copy Share Image
What if she was meant to be, or could have been, someone important in my life? I think that's what scares me: the randomness of everything. That the people who could be important to you might just pass you by. Or you pass them by. How do you know...I felt that by walking away I was abandoning [them], that I… — Peter Cameron Copy Share
Sometimes I envy religious people for the comfort of believing. It would make everything so much easier. — Peter Cameron Copy Share Image
