About Robert Caro: Robert Allan Caro is an American journalist and author known for his celebrated biographies of United States political figures Robert Moses and Lyndon B. Johnson.
Ballet is sort of a mystery to me. And I don't want to unravel that mystery.
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.
I deliberately made an effort not to become an expert on the ballet.
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.
My predictions are notably inaccurate.
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.
I never went to a ballet until I was 45 years old. I don't know why.
The Senate is an unknowing world.
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.
It's very easy to fool yourself that you're working, you know, when you're really not working very hard. I mean, I'm very lazy. So for me, I would always have an excuse, you know, to go - quit early, go to a museum, you know. So I do everything I can...
I think President Obama has done more than he is given credit for.
Nobody believes this, but I write very fast.
I finish what I have to do in the office.
I try to have a mood or a rhythm for a chapter.
There's a real feeling when you know you're getting it right. It's a physical feeling.
I trained myself to be organized.
The right of a minority is so important in a democracy.
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 sometimes feel that if your book sells more than 20 years, then there's something in it that you can say, gee, I did something that endures, that's timeless.
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.
