Herman Brown was a businessman who wanted value for money spent. His relationships with politicians were measured by that criterion.

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.

You come in off the street, through the doors of the theater. You sit down. The lights go down and the curtain goes up. And you're in another world

To my mind, the prose in a non-fiction work that's going to endure has to be of the same quality as the prose in a work of fiction that endures.

I trained myself to be organized.

Herman Brown was a businessman who wanted value for money spent. His relationships with politicians were measured by that criterion.

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.