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.

At the ballet, you really feel like you're in the presence of something outside the rest of your life. Higher than the rest of your life.

Lyndon Johnson, as majority leader of the United States Senate, he made the Senate work

Robert Moses wasn't elected to anything. We're taught that in a democracy power comes from being elected. He had more power than anyone, and he held it for 48 years

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.

My predictions are notably inaccurate

Ballet is sort of a mystery to me. And I don't want to unravel that mystery.