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

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

I never wanted to do biography just to tell the life of a famous man. I always wanted to use the life of a man to examine political power, because democracy shapes our lives

The Senate is an unknowing world

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

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 he held it for 48 years

The moment the curtain rose on that first ballet, I knew something wonderful and new had come into my life. I can still see the first scene. The ballet was Divertimento No. 15

The New York City Ballet is obviously speaking to a whole new generation and bringing it the same wonder and beauty that it brought previous generations

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

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.

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

Sense will buy you more than dollars.

The failure to accept cancer as a systemic disease is one of the greatest failures in modern medicine.

People need to realize bullying has just as much of an impact online because words are so cutting and difficult to deal with.

Have the strength to be an honest person.

An FBI agent ought to be able to surf the net and look for sites that instruct people how to make bombs.

I never use the word, it's loaded. What love means to me is need.

Whoever can conquer the street will one day conquer the state, for every form of power politics and any dictatorship-run state has its roots in the street.

I remember last time I played Nocturnal Wonderland I dropped that 'Move 4 First Aid' mashup and people ripping their hair out... crazy night.

The light ones may be killers, the dark ones mild; not the wrappers but the fillers, make cigars or women wild.

I have adopted the Roman sentiment, that it is more honorable to save a citizen than to kill an enemy.