Robert Caro

I finish what I have to do in the office.

— Robert Caro

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

— Robert Caro

Nobody believes this, but I write very fast,

— Robert Caro

“Power doesn’t corrupt, it reveals.”

— Robert Caro

My interest is in power. How power works.

— Robert Caro

I trained myself to be organized,

— Robert Caro

The Senate is an unknowing world

— Robert Caro

My predictions are notably inaccurate

— Robert Caro

Everyone believed the Senate could not really be led. It used to take so long to rise up through seniority.

— Robert Caro

What would be the good of rushing? You want these books to last.

— Robert Caro

The ballet embodies the notes of music. And sometimes you almost feel like you can see the notes dance up there on…

— Robert Caro

Ballet is sort of a mystery to me. And I don't want to unravel that mystery.

— Robert Caro

There's a real feeling when you know you're getting it right. It's a physical feeling.

— Robert Caro

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

— Robert Caro

Power doesn't always corrupt. Power can cleanse. What I believe is always true about power is that power always reveals.

— Robert Caro

Someday a political genius will come along and make the Senate work.

— Robert Caro

I used to work very long hours. Then I started to realize that the stuff that I was writing in the late…

— Robert Caro

I sometimes feel that if your book sells more than 20 years, then there's something in it that you can say, gee,…

— Robert Caro

There's a theory, and I think the theory is right, that in order to make a change you've got to make the…

— Robert Caro

You know, my first three or four drafts, you can see, are on legal pads in long hand. And then I go…

— Robert Caro

At the ballet, you really feel like you're in the presence of something outside the rest of your life. Higher than the…

— Robert Caro

I don't think of my books as being biographies. I never had any interest in doing a book just to write the…

— Robert Caro

Everyone believed the Senate could not really be led. It used to take so long to rise up through seniority. In two…

— Robert Caro

To my mind, the prose in a non-fiction work that's going to endure has to be of the same quality as the…

— Robert Caro

You can lose a reader in a blink of an eye. If a person is an engineer or chemist or an anthropologist…

— Robert Caro

I write from seven to about noon. I used to try to write longer, but I read and I found that I…

— Robert Caro

We're taught Lord Acton's axiom: all power corrupts, absolute power corrupts absolutely. I believed that when I started these books, but I…

— Robert Caro

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…

— Robert Caro

There used to be this feeling under Eisenhower and Kennedy and Roosevelt and Truman that government was a solution. Trust in the…

— Robert Caro

The right of a minority is so important in a democracy.

— Robert Caro

I really wanted there to be something in my life that I enjoy just for the beauty of it.

— Robert Caro

I think President Obama has done more than he is given credit for.

— Robert Caro

You can use a biography to examine political power, but only if you pick the right guy.

— Robert Caro

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

— Robert Caro

Lyndon Johnson, as majority leader of the United States Senate, he made the Senate work

— Robert Caro

When you have enough power to do what you always wanted to do, then you see what the guy always wanted to…

— Robert Caro

You know, we're taught that in a democracy power comes from being elected.

— Robert Caro

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

— Robert Caro

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…

— Robert Caro

The moment the curtain rose on that first ballet, I knew something wonderful and new had come into my life. I can…

— Robert Caro