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.
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.
