You can use a biography to examine political power, but only if you pick the right guy. — Robert Caro Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
I never wanted to do biography just to tell the life of a famous man. I always wanted to use the life… — Robert Caro Copy Share Image
I am trying to make clear through my writing something which I believe: that biography- history in general- can be literature in… — Robert Caro Copy Share Image
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 lazy. So… — Robert Caro Copy Share
There's a theory, and I think the theory is right, that in order to make a change you've got to make the whole language… — Robert Caro Copy Share
Everyone believed the Senate could not really be led. It used to take so long to rise up through seniority. In two years Lyndon… — Robert Caro Copy Share
I really wanted there to be something in my life that I enjoy just for the beauty of it. — Robert Caro Copy Share
We're taught Lord Acton's axiom: all power corrupts, absolute power corrupts absolutely. I believed that when I started these books, but I don't believe… — Robert Caro Copy Share
Ballet is sort of a mystery to me. And I don't want to unravel that mystery. — Robert Caro Copy Share
Among the reasons that you go into journalism, I suppose, are some rather idealistic, even foolish reasons. In my case one of the reasons… — Robert Caro Copy Share
Whenever I go to work I wear a jacket and a tie, because I'm inherently quite lazy, and my books take so long to… — Robert Caro Copy Share
When you have enough power to do what you always wanted to do, then you see what the guy always wanted to do. — Robert Caro Copy Share
As you get older, you sometimes feel that it's harder and harder to get something new and wonderful to come into your life. — Robert Caro Copy Share
The New York City Ballet is obviously speaking to a whole new generation and bringing it the same wonder and beauty that it brought… — Robert Caro Copy Share
Robert Moses wasn't elected to anything. We're taught that in a democracy power comes from being elected. He had more power than anyone, and… — Robert Caro Copy Share
