Nobody believes this, but I write very fast.

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

The Senate is an unknowing world

The moment the curtain rose on that first ballet, I knew something wonderful and new had come into my life. I can still see the first scene. The ballet was Divertimento No. 15

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

I don't think of my books as being biographies. I never had any interest in doing a book just to write the life of a great man. I had zero interest in that. My interest is in power. How power works.

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