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

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

If it's coming near the end of a chapter and I'm really getting into it, I tend to get up earlier and earlier, just because I'm excited to get to work.

I try to have a mood or a rhythm for a chapter.

There's a theory, and I think the theory is right, that in order to make a change you've got to make the whole language of the page harmonious. Well, that's a lot easier with a computer.

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

My predictions are notably inaccurate