62 Quotes by Peter Cameron

You’re so young... Are you sure that’s what you want your life to be, forever and ever? That job? That career? That girlfriend?

The main problem was I don’t like people in general and people my age in particular, and people my age are the ones who go to college.

There are things in your life that you don’t want to do that you will have to do. You cannot always do and go what and where you please. That is not how life works. This is one of those times when you must do and go what and where you do not want to do or go.

I like life. I would not want to live forever, but for a little while, life is fine.

I wish the whole day were like breakfast, when people are still connected to their dreams, focused inward, and not yet ready to engage with the world around them. I realized this is how I am all day; for me, unlike other people, there doesn’t come a moment after a cup of coffee or a shower or whatever when I suddenly feel alive and awake and connected to the world. If it were always breakfast, I would be fine.

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, not thought.

I always looked forward to being an adult, because I thought the adult world was, well – adult. That adults weren’t cliquey or nasty, that the whole notion of being cool, or in, or popular would case to be the arbiter of all things social, but I was beginning to realize that the adult world was as nonsensically brutal and socially perilous as the kingdom of childhood.

I’m fascinated by lobotomies, the idea of opening up the brain and snipping around a bit and then closing it up again, like fixing a car or something. And the person wakes up and is a little stupid but stupid in a happy, untroubled way.