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

The Senate is an unknowing world

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.

The ballet embodies the notes of music. And sometimes you almost feel like you can see the notes dance up there on the stage.

I am trying to make clear through my writing something which I believe: that biography- history in general- can be literature in the deepest and highest sense of that term.

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 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