Quotes from Paul Johnson

As a child I found railroad stations exciting, mysterious, and even beautiful, as indeed they often were.

The United States is a concept that works very well, even in bad times. But that's no reason to think its structure can be superimposed with success on any other part of the world, particularly when times are terrible.

A deliberate plan is not always necessary for the highest art; it emerges.

Human beings are infinitely worth studying, especially the peculiarities that often go along with outstanding gifts.

If anti-Semitism is a variety of racism, it is a most peculiar variety, with many unique characteristics. In my view as a historian, it is so peculiar that it deserves to be placed in a quite different category. I would call it an intellectual disease, a disease of the mind, extremely infectious and massively destructive.

I've been having an affair, but I still believe in family values.

You know you're an Arizona native when you have to look up "mass transit" in the dictionary.

The word 'meaningful' when used today is nearly always meaningless.