“The earth knows exactly how to hold us if we just let it.” — Armistead Maupin Earth Copy Share Image
I think that instinct, that storytelling instinct, rescued me most of my life. — Armistead Maupin Instinct Copy Share Image
“if you’re going to be degenerate, you might as well be a lady about it, don’t you think?” — Armistead Maupin Degenerate Copy Share Image
“Hey, you look at your tits; I'll look at mine! (Michael Tolliver, Tales of the City)” — Armistead Maupin Copy Share Image
When I get back from this book tour, I'm planning to learn the internet. Maybe I can hook up in cyberspace. — Armistead Maupin Copy Share Image
I've always believed you can get closer to the truth by pretending not to speak it. — Armistead Maupin Copy Share Image
“Nobody's happy. What's happy? Happiness is over when the lights come on” — Armistead Maupin Happiness Copy Share Image
I felt very close to God… My friends say that's because I was always on my knees. — Armistead Maupin Copy Share Image
Well, maybe it has to do with the fact that I was a complete Hitchcock fanatic from age 9. — Armistead Maupin Age Copy Share Image
Taureans are stubborn as hell. They never want to tell you what sign they are… But underneath that tough Taurus hide beats… — Armistead Maupin Astrology Copy Share Image
“..numbed by disappointment and betrayal, like a child who had been awakened suddenly from a summer dream about christmas morning.” — Armistead Maupin Betrayal Copy Share Image
“We’re gonna be … I mean people like you and me … we’re gonna be fifty-year-old libertines in a world full of… — Armistead Maupin Mean people Copy Share Image
For the most part, I have a very manageable celebrity. People recognize me from time to time, and they usually say very… — Armistead Maupin Celebrity Copy Share Image
I know I can't tell you what it's like to be gay. But I can tell you what it's not. It's not… — Armistead Maupin Copy Share Image
“Michael’s generation—its history of fighting disease and bigotry—sometimes made him grumpier than Ben would like him to be, but he knew what… — Armistead Maupin History Copy Share Image
But I will say that the drugs are much more ferocious then they used to be. There are people wrecking their lives… — Armistead Maupin Addiction Copy Share Image
My only regret about being gay is that I repressed it for so long. I surrendered my youth to the people I… — Armistead Maupin Failure Copy Share Image
“How old are you?” I hadn’t been asked this in a place of business since I was seventeen, when I tried, unsuccessfully,… — Armistead Maupin Business Copy Share Image
“Still, I gave her a call, wondering if she might have lost someone herself, but our talk was limited to the surreal… — Armistead Maupin Crisis Copy Share Image
“The people beneath the pendulum were in their own orbits of bliss or grief, which Shawna did not want to invade. Instead… — Armistead Maupin Happiness Copy Share Image
“She lifted the book to her nose and inhaled the scent lingering in its cardboard bones: a hint of rosewater and Lysol… — Armistead Maupin Blue moon Copy Share Image
“Such a suitable word, stroke. I'd heard it since childhood without fully understanding its meaning, but it sounded, even through a haze… — Armistead Maupin Children Copy Share Image
Oh, Mona, we're all damned fools! Some of us just have more fun with it than others. Loosen up, dear! Don't be… — Armistead Maupin Comedy Copy Share Image
“It all goes so fast, she thought. We dole out our lives in dinner parties and plane flights, and it's over before… — Armistead Maupin Copy Share Image
Nobody's happy. What's happy? Happiness is over when the lights come on." The older woman poured herself a glass of sangria. "Screw… — Armistead Maupin Copy Share Image
“What about San Francisco?" "What about it?" "Did you like it?" She shrugged. "It was O.K." "Just O.K.?" She laughed. "Good God!"… — Armistead Maupin Copy Share Image
“DEAR MAMA, I’m sorry it’s taken me so long to write. Every time I try to write to you and Papa I… — Armistead Maupin Copy Share Image
I think there are strands in all of our lives that can be seen if we step back to recognize them. Coincidence… — Armistead Maupin After death Copy Share Image
“Thack seemed to sort something out for a moment. “Sometimes I watch him when he’s playing with Harry or digging in the… — Armistead Maupin Copy Share Image
The hell of it is, I know the answer. The answer is that you never, ever, rely on another person for your… — Armistead Maupin Copy Share Image
