I am trying to make clear through my writing something which I believe: that biography- history in general- can be literature in the deepest and highest sense of that term. – Robert Caro
Now, for this book I had to learn the world of the Senate, which is really for all thats written about the Senate, an unknowing world and its mores, and the way things work with subcommittees and all. I loved learning about that. – Robert Caro
I really wanted there to be something in my life that I enjoy just for the beauty of it. – Robert Caro
Every president has to live with the result of what Lyndon Johnson did with Vietnam, when he lost the trust of the American people in the presidency. – Robert Caro
Logic is a large drawer, containing some useful instruments, and many more that are superfluous. A wise man will look into it for two purposes, to avail himself of those instruments that are really useful, and to admire the ingenuity with which those that are not so, are assorted and arranged. – Charles Caleb Colton, Lacon