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 Behinds 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
I haven't lost faith in human nature and I haven't decided to be less compassionate to strangers. — Armistead Maupin Faith Copy Share Image
I can't imagine a more fulfilling thing for a writer than that you've made a strong impact on the lives of other… — Armistead Maupin Impact 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 Drivel Copy Share Image
“Could you conjugate that? To sleaze. I sleaze. You sleaze. We all have sleazen.” — Armistead Maupin Copy Share Image
“Laugh all you want and cry all you want and whistle at pretty men in the street and to hell with anybody… — Armistead Maupin Copy Share Image
“Help me find Vuitton.” The priest scolded her with a glance. “You’ve lost him again?” “Of course not,” said Prue. “He’s around… — Armistead Maupin Copy Share Image
I have always distrusted memoir. I tend to write my memoirs through my fiction. It's easier to get to the truth by… — Armistead Maupin Always Copy Share Image
Don't listen when they scoff That you are too old and I am young, For I am old enough to know better… — Armistead Maupin Care Copy Share Image
“Down the Peninsula at Cypress Lawn Cemetery, a woman in a paisley turban climbed out of a battered automobile and trudged up… — Armistead Maupin Copy Share Image
“The earth knows exactly how to hold us if we just let it.” — Armistead Maupin Nature 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
“A pristine landscape was perfection itself; it was only when you added people that everything changed.” — Armistead Maupin Copy Share Image
Like I've always said, love wouldn't be blind if the braille weren't so damned much fun. — Armistead Maupin Blind Copy Share Image
“Somepeople drink to foregt, I smoke to remember" Anna Madrigal in Tales of the City...” — Armistead Maupin Copy Share Image
“Pete thinks we all have a blacking factory: some awful moment, early on, when we surrender our childish hearts as surely as… — Armistead Maupin Childhood Copy Share Image
“It occurred to Michael that this was the great perk of being loved: someone to wait for you, someone to tell you… — Armistead Maupin Copy Share Image
“Sooner or later, though, no matter where in the world we live, we must join the diaspora, venturing beyond our biological family… — Armistead Maupin Family Copy Share Image
“I don't see myself very clearly. Then look at the people who love you...Look into their eyes and see what they're seeing;… — Armistead Maupin Love Copy Share Image
I've always believed you can get closer to the truth by pretending not to speak it. — Armistead Maupin Always 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
