My interest is in power. How power works.
Lyndon Johnson, as majority leader of the United States Senate, he made the Senate work
I try to have a mood or a rhythm for a chapter.
I never went to a ballet until I was 45 years old. I don't know why.
I sometimes feel that if your book sells more than 20 years, then there's something in it that you can say, gee, I did something that endures, that's timeless
As you get older, you sometimes feel that it's harder and harder to get something new and wonderful to come into your life.