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.
Ballet is sort of a mystery to me. And I don't want to unravel that mystery.
You know, my first three or four drafts, you can see, are on legal pads in long hand. And then I go to a typewriter, and I know everybody's switching to a computer. And I'm sort of laughed at.
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.
You can use a biography to examine political power, but only if you pick the right guy.
There's a real feeling when you know you're getting it right. It's a physical feeling.
