If it's coming near the end of a chapter and I'm really getting into it, I tend to get up earlier and earlier, just because I'm excited to get to work.

I never went to a ballet until I was 45 years old. I don't know why.

As you get older, you sometimes feel that it's harder and harder to get something new and wonderful to come into your life.

I think President Obama has done more than he is given credit for.

I don't think of my books as being biographies. I never had any interest in doing a book just to write the life of a great man. I had zero interest in that. My interest is in power. How power works.

Nobody believes this, but I write very fast.

The right of a minority is so important in a democracy.