I Trained Myself To Be

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.

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.

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.

I Never Went To A Ballet Until I Was 45 Years Old. I Don't Know Why.

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.