To copy others is necessary, but to copy oneself is pathetic.
Someday a political genius will come along and make the Senate work.
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.
Power doesn't always corrupt. Power can cleanse. What I believe is always true about power is that power always reveals.
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
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 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
Kids are super-independent. This is the time when you don't need your parents for a story anymore. You have a great degree of agency and independence.
Matrimony is the only game of chance the clergy favor.
A President is neither prince nor pope, and I don't seek a window on men's souls. In fact, I yearn for a greater tolerance, an easy-goingness about each other's attitudes and way of life.
And if I had not a letter to write myself, I might sit by you and admire the evenness of your writing, as another young lady once did. But I have an aunt too, who must not be longer neglected.