“I'm working on a new problem: Find the value for N such that N plus everything else in your life makes you… — Peter Cameron Life 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
I think that’s what scares me: the randomness of everything. That the people who could be important to you might just pass… — Peter Cameron Copy Share Image
“... she had insisted on keeping the doors and windows shut, as if a sealed chamber could prevent death from entering, or… — Peter Cameron Death Copy Share Image
“Being alone is a basic need of mine like food and water, but I realize it is not so for others.” — Peter Cameron Copy Share Image
I don't know why I felt so closed and bitter and threatened by the things I did not like. — Peter Cameron Copy Share Image
“I hate when people say 'I see'. It doesn't mean anything and I think it's hostile. Whenever anyone tells me 'I see'… — Peter Cameron Hate Copy Share Image
“You're so young... Are you sure that's what you want your life to be, forever and ever? That job? That career? That… — Peter Cameron Career 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:… — Peter Cameron Copy Share Image
“There are things in your life that you don’t want to do that you will have to do. You cannot always do… — Peter Cameron Life Copy Share Image
I don't think I could ever work in such a blatantly hierarchical corporate setting. I know that everyone in this world is… — Peter Cameron Bears Copy Share Image
“Why? Because you wanted something, and tried to get it. You acted. You acted stupidly, but you acted, and that’s the important… — Peter Cameron Love Copy Share Image
It seemed that everyone else could mate, could fit their parts together in pleasant and productive ways, but that some almost indistinguishable… — Peter Cameron Anatomy Copy Share Image
Interacting with other people does not come naturally to me; it is a strain and requires effort, and since it does not… — Peter Cameron Copy Share Image
I found the idea of being a librarian very appealing--working in a place where people had to whisper and only speak when… — Peter Cameron Copy Share Image
Are you okay?' she asked me. Of course,' I said. 'Why wouldn't I be okay?' There are lots of reasons why you… — Peter Cameron Copy Share Image
It was strange to see someone you have only known alone begin interacting with other people, for that somebody known to you… — Peter Cameron Business Copy Share Image
“ Just ignore him and he’ll go away, my mother used to say to Gillian when we were young and I bugged… — Peter Cameron Children Copy Share Image
I always looked forward to being an adult, because I thought the adult world was, well—adult. That adults weren’t cliquey or nasty,… — Peter Cameron Adults 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:… — Peter Cameron Copy Share Image
And the boys were all clean, their faces freshly and brutally shaved, their hair painstakingly gelled into exquisite apparent carelessness, with this… — Peter Cameron Copy Share Image
I actually grew fond of her in a nastily superior kind of way. For she was so completely artless and optimistic and… — 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… — Peter Cameron Defeat Copy Share Image
I’m not a sociopath or a freak (although I don’t suppose people who are sociopaths or freaks self-identify as such); I just… — Peter Cameron Copy Share Image
“A young man and woman walked past - a handsome young man and pretty young woman, the man in a seersucker suit… — Peter Cameron Copy Share Image
“But are you glad you went to college? Was it a good experience?” I suppose it was. Althought I can’t remember a… — Peter Cameron High school Copy Share Image
“Having bad experiences sometimes helps; it makes it clearer what it is you should be doing. I know that sounds very Pollyannaish… — Peter Cameron Advice Copy Share Image
Unfortunately I have never been good in math. Numbers simply do not interest me or seem as real to me as words. — Peter Cameron Copy Share Image
It wouldn't kill you to get me an iced coffee." "No, but not getting killed doing something is not a very compelling… — Peter Cameron Coffee Copy Share Image
I hate stand-up comics; I think funny is something you are, not something you desperately try to be in front of a… — Peter Cameron Comedy Copy Share Image
I thought the best thing to do would be nothing, and in that way things couldn’t get any worse. — Peter Cameron Best thing Copy Share Image
“You’re so intent on making your life impossible. It doesn’t bode well. Life is difficult enough, you know.” — Peter Cameron Copy Share Image
“Oh, I could never go back to that work, it's so dreary and the last thing the world needs is another coffee… — Peter Cameron Books Copy Share Image
I felt this awful obligation to be charming or at least have something to say, and the pressure of having to be… — 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… — Peter Cameron Language Copy Share Image
I think therapy is a rather misguided notion of capitalist societies whereby the self-indulgent examination of one's life supersedes the actual living… — Peter Cameron Copy Share Image
They're both about the correct or proper way to do something. There is a correct and proper way to use words and… — Peter Cameron Copy Share Image
