Interacting with other people does not come naturally to me; it is a strain and requires effort, and since it does not come naturally I feel like I am not really myself when I make that effort. I feel fairly… — 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… — Peter Cameron Copy Share Image
Sometimes I envy religious people for the comfort of believing. It would make everything so much easier. — Peter Cameron Copy Share Image
