"biography should not just be a collection of facts it's of real importance to enable the reader to see in his mind the places in which the book's facts are located if a reader can visualize them for h..."

"Sam Johnson's determination to buy the original Johnson Ranch the ranch's soil had worn out there wasn't going to be any way of making much money out of that land and his father didn't realize that hi..."

"19 years old he worked for almost 2 years on a highway gang driving a Fresno a Fresno is a device that was used to level unpaved highways it is a big heavy slab of iron with the front Edge sharpened t..."

"lynon Johnson's political activities of all of his political activities one of the most remarkable was his ability to count votes this is incredible Caro is about to describe why and how lyndon's fath..."

"for many people it's just an unfortunate personal characteristic for lynon Johnson it was the bite of the rains into his back as he shoved hour after hour under that merciless Hill Country Sun pushing..."

"being Charming being friends wasn't What mattered to Johnson What mattered to him was winning because he knew what losing could be what its consequences could be hundreds of writers journalists and au..."

"the documentary is about the 50-year relationship uh that Carol has had with his editor and in that documentary you see Caro's approach to his work and so when I went I have this like bookshelf where ..."

"which are my life it's about what it was like to sit listening to Robert Moses who was old but still Mighty to be in a room with him alone with him and hear him talk about his dreams the dreams that h..."

"so this is the first me time he mentions it he mentions it multiple times that there is a whole the world Works Powers uh acred and also utilized very differently from what he was taught in college wh..."

"writing was so easy to me that type of writing later on writing becomes very difficult to him I determined to do something to slow myself down to not write until I had thought things through and the o..."

"once once he goes down this line the reason they take so long is because he has to turn every page we'll get to that very important that becomes his life motto I'll tell you a few minutes how uh who t..."

"the main theme of the book that I have no choice this is my nature I have to turn every page and so he says I try to write the power broker without dramatizing this human cost I would start outlining ..."

"not a full-fledged Memoir what is it it's a book about my work and how I do it why am I publishing this book now why don't I just include this material in the longer fulllength Memoir that I'm hoping ..."

"I'm just typing these and jotting these down as I'm watching this and I watch this twice and what I realized about a young Robert was that he fell in love with books when he was young young he had a r..."

"sitting there gr going through them I felt I was at home there are certain moments in your life when you suddenly understand something about yourself I loved going through those files making them yiel..."

"across Long Island and so that's what Robert wants to happen he has an unbelievable amount of power this time so Robert Carol is up there everybody in ALB says no we're not going to do this he's like ..."

"understands how he got this power or how powerful he was and so he says I didn't do much with the S at the time I love being a reporter but you're always running from one story to another and it wasn'..."

"realities of power how it really works and that's just incredible incredible writing like you feel like you're in the CL like when you're reading this you feel you're really there with Robert and so t..."

"you will be in your life which is complete and utter [ __ ] the power broker was published in 1974 it is it's on it's like 47th printing it is on the top list of the hund best non-fiction books over a..."

"sorry not Richard Robert gotle uh Bob gotle and Linn nbit come into his life and they're actually in the documentary and this is I don't even know what 40 years later 1971 so 50 over 50 years later th..."

"said is that what you're worried about then you can stop worrying right now I can get you that just by picking up the phone everybody in New York knows about this book then she said you can stop worry..."

"the key was that this little Upstate guy and then he named some long forgotten State Assembly man and he had a mortgage coming due on his farm and the mortgage was held by a bank up there and the key ..."

"very rare form of Genius what Robert Caro is telling us is that Robert Moses was a ruthless genius and then he builds on this he adds another layer first he told us told us about his ruthlessness then..."

"it's Caro that's why we just going to call him Bob uh when in Bob's life where he is struggling with doubt and uncertainty he's completely isolated he feels like the Project's never going to be finish..."

"the most fundamental reason for this feeling of unreality I had for 5 years been living in a world utterly unpopulated by anyone else who was doing what I was doing that's the exact same idea that Pau..."

"quiet way Eleanor and Franklin one of his biographies took me seven years in a couple of sentences these two men Idols of mine had wiped away 5 years of doubt and so now he's having lunch every day wi..."

"applying it to the research that he's doing in the Presidential Library of LBJ it would take multiple lifetimes to read everything but what pops out at you is that the fact that Bob was willing to spe..."