97 Quotes by Robert Caro

I deliberately made an effort not to become an expert on the ballet.

I finish what I have to do in the office.

I try to have a mood or a rhythm for a chapter,

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.

Nobody believes this, but I write very fast,

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

As you get older, you sometimes feel that it's harder and harder to get something new and wonderful to come into your life.

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.

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