I am trying to make clear through my writing something which I believe: that biography- history in general- can be literature in the deepest and highest sense of that term.

Lyndon Johnson, as majority leader of the United States Senate, he made the Senate work

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.

The right of a minority is so important in a democracy.

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.

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