Power doesn't always corrupt. Power can cleanse. What I believe is always true about power is that power always reveals.

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

Everyone believed the Senate could not really be led. It used to take so long to rise up through seniority. In two years Lyndon Johnson is assistant leader of his party. In four years he is the leader of his party.

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.

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

Nobody believes this, but I write very fast.

I used to work very long hours. Then I started to realize that the stuff that I was writing in the late afternoons, I was generally throwing out. So I quit earlier than I used to.