Ballet is sort of a mystery to me. And I don't want to unravel that mystery.

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

I never wanted to do biography just to tell the life of a famous man. I always wanted to use the life of a man to examine political power, because democracy shapes our lives

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.

Every president has to live with the result of what Lyndon Johnson did with Vietnam, when he lost the trust of the American people in the presidency.

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

Someday a political genius will come along and make the Senate work.