Robert Caro

Quotes

• “We're taught Lord Acton's axiom: all power corrupts, absolute power corrupts absolutely. I believed that when I started ...”
• “You know, my first three or four drafts, you can see, are on legal pads in long hand. And then I go to a typewriter, and...”
• “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 examin...”
• “There is a time to fish and a time to mend nets.”