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

My interest is in power. How power works.

You have to be an extremely good reader to appreciate what a good writer is. There are some people who are completely insensitive to good writing.

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

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

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

Someday a political genius will come along and make the Senate work.