Jeff James’s Profile

“Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own.”
― Robert A. Heinlein, Stranger in a Strange Land

“It didn't matter in the end how old they had been, or that they were girls, but only that we had loved them, and that they hadn't heard us calling, still do not hear us, up here in the tree house with our thinning hair and soft bellies, calling them out of those rooms where they went to be alone for all time, alone in suicide, which is deeper than death, and where we will never find the pieces to put them back together. ”
― Jeffrey Eugenides, The Virgin Suicides

“I'm not afraid of death; I just don't want to be there when it happens.”
― Woody Allen

“Good friends, good books, and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life.”
― Mark Twain