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

Whenever I go to work I wear a jacket and a tie, because I'm inherently quite lazy, and my books take so long to do, and my publishers don't bug me, so it's so easy to fool yourself into thinking you're working harder than you really are.

My predictions are notably inaccurate

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

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 write from seven to about noon. I used to try to write longer, but I read and I found that I was always getting myself tired by working in the afternoon and then I was just throwing out what I wrote in the afternoon, so writing then was counterproductive.

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