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  • I used to work very long hours. Then I started to realize that the stuff that I was writing in the late afternoons, I was generally throwing out. So I quit earlier than I used to.

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

    "Robert Caro: a life with LBJ and the pursuit of power" by Chris McGreal, www.theguardian.com. June 10, 2012.
  • Sometimes during a ballet I'll look around and see all these rows of intent faces, concentrating on this beautiful thing up on the stage.

  • 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.

    Thinking   Order   Pages  
  • There's a feeling about it. You feel almost like a cabinetmaker, laying planks. There's a real feeling when you know you're getting it right. It's a physical feeling.

    Real   Feelings   Knows  
    "The Big Book" by Chris Jones, www.esquire.com. April 12, 2012.
  • The ballet embodies the notes of music. And sometimes you almost feel like you can see the notes dance up there on the stage.

    "Music, Visualized". Coast Weekend, May 24, 2012.
  • At the ballet, you really feel like you're in the presence of something outside the rest of your life. Higher than the rest of your life.

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

    Robert A. Caro (1983). “The Years of Lyndon Johnson: The path to power”, Vintage
  • 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

    Light   Doors   World  
  • I like new ballets because they're totally new. As you get older, new experiences are harder and harder to come by, so it's pretty great to have a new experience.

  • If things are going well, if the writing's coming along, I jump out of bed happy. And if the previous day has been bad, I get out of bed disgruntled.

    Writing   Bed   Wells  
  • 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.

    Book   Thinking   Ties  
  • Someday a political genius will come along and make the Senate work.

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

    Ballet   Want   Mystery  
  • My interest is in power. How power works.

    "Robert Caro: a life with LBJ and the pursuit of power" by Chris McGreal, www.theguardian.com. June 9, 2012.
  • 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.

    Excited   Get Up   Ends  
  • The right of a minority is so important in a democracy.

    "Robert Caro: GOP Abuse Of Filibuster ‘Unconscionable,’ Harry Reid Has Done ‘A Terrific Job’" by Ryan Grim, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 30, 2012.
  • 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

  • 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.

  • The New York City Ballet is obviously speaking to a whole new generation and bringing it the same wonder and beauty that it brought previous generations

  • I write from seven to about noon. I used to try to write longer, but I read and I found that I was always getting myself tired by working in the afternoon and then I was just throwing out what I wrote in the afternoon, so writing then was counterproductive.

    Writing   Tired   Trying  
    "The Round Table: Fiction, Biography And The Use Of Power". Interview with Kurt Vonnegut, www.robertcaro.com. 1999.
  • You can use a biography to examine political power, but only if you pick the right guy.

    Guy   Political   Use  
  • I never went to a ballet until I was 45 years old. I don't know why.

    Years   Ballet   Knows  
  • You can lose a reader in a blink of an eye. If a person is an engineer or chemist or an anthropologist or whatever, you spoil the whole book for that person if there's obviously ignorance here. What's wrong with so much science fiction is that the science is so lousy that it isn't worth paying attention to.

    Book   Ignorance   Eye  
  • 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.

    Zero   Book   Writing  
    "Robert Caro: a life with LBJ and the pursuit of power" by Chris McGreal, www.theguardian.com. June 09, 2012.
  • I trained myself to be organized.

  • You have to be an extremely good reader to appreciate what a good writer is. There are some people who are completely insensitive to good writing.

  • Everything seems to be going faster and faster. It's really harder to create something that endures. The New York City Ballet has succeeded in doing that.

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

    Trying   Mood   Chapters  
    "The Big Book" by Chris Jones, www.esquire.com. April 12, 2012.
  • Everyone believed the Senate could not really be led. It used to take so long to rise up through seniority. In two years Lyndon Johnson is assistant leader of his party. In four years he is the leader of his party.

    Party   Two   Years  
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