Len Deighton

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?

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.

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.