You come in off the street, through the doors of the theater. You sit down. The lights go down and the curtain goes up. And you're in another world

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

You can use a biography to examine political power, but only if you pick the right guy.

Nobody believes this, but I write very fast.

I trained myself to be organized.

My predictions are notably inaccurate

I was trying to learn about Lyndon Johnson when he was young and creating his first political machine in the Texas hill country. I moved there for three years. You had to learn that world