Len Deighton Quotes

“Do you ever make silly mistakes? It is one of my very few creative activities.”

“What Douglas had once seen as the attractive over-confidence of youth, now looked more like unyielding selfishness.”

“I think Jay is in import and export business as his cards say, but he finally found that the second most valuable commodity today is information.""And?""The most valuable?""People with information," I suggested.”

“Perhaps hell is like that; a discordant confusion of anxious souls. Some argued, some slept, some shouted, some wept, some wrote, some sketched and many conspired about their coming interrogation. But mostly they did no more than stare into space, eyes unfocused as they tried to see tomorrow.”

“When they ask me to become president of the United States I'm going to say, "Except for Washington D.C.”

“Why do these people love you, Archer? Is it simply because you show little or no response to their affection?”

“It is good to be in front of the lens to appreciate more being behind the lens.”

“Only when we accept the fact that the world is never exactly as we see it through our individual lens of perception will we be able to accept ourselves or the mystery that is life itself.”

“We must look at the lens through we see the world, as well as the world we see, and that the lens itself shapes how we interpret the world.”

“Too often, opinion is a lens polished by the grit of bias. And as I stare through my own lens, I might ask how much polish can the grit of bias actually create?”