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 trained myself to be organized.

The Senate is an unknowing world

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

I sometimes feel that if your book sells more than 20 years, then there's something in it that you can say, gee, I did something that endures, that's timeless

Among the reasons that you go into journalism, I suppose, are some rather idealistic, even foolish reasons. In my case one of the reasons was I wanted to explain how things really work, how political power really works.

At the ballet, you really feel like you're in the presence of something outside the rest of your life. Higher than the rest of your life.