I never went to a ballet until I was 45 years old. I don't know why.

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

Nobody believes this, but I write very fast.

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

Everything seems to be going faster and faster. It's really harder to create something that endures. The New York City Ballet has succeeded in doing that.

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