Armistead Maupin

Too much of a good thing is wonderful.

— Armistead Maupin

Solitude was no reason for sloppiness

— Armistead Maupin

“The earth knows exactly how to hold us if we just let it.”

— Armistead Maupin

“Jesus Christ, you people are complicated.”

— Armistead Maupin

I tend to prefer the shelter of fiction.

— Armistead Maupin

I've always drawn on bits and pieces of my own life

— Armistead Maupin

Outing is a nasty word for telling the truth.

— Armistead Maupin

Being in love is the only transcendent experience.

— Armistead Maupin

I'm not sure I even need a lover, male or female. Sometimes I think I'd settle for five good friends.

— Armistead Maupin

“Mona … lots of things are more binding than sex. They last longer too.”

— Armistead Maupin

“Actions have consequences. In actions have them. We set things in motion by what we don't do.”

— Armistead Maupin

I think a lot of gay people who are not dealing with their homosexuality get into right- wing politics.

— Armistead Maupin

“Garbage, you know, is very revealing.It beats the shit out of tarot cards.”

— Armistead Maupin

“I want to deceive him just long enough to make him want me..”

— Armistead Maupin

“Nobody's happy. What's happy? Happiness is over when the lights come on”

— Armistead Maupin

I felt very close to God… My friends say that's because I was always on my knees.

— Armistead Maupin

I know that when Terry and I were together, 10 years ago, he did not appreciate it when people would ask him…

— Armistead Maupin

It may interest you to know that my breakup with Terry and this mystery did not happen concurrently in real life. That…

— Armistead Maupin

But I'm acutely aware that the possibility of fraud is even more prevalent in today's world because of the Internet and cell…

— Armistead Maupin

“Pete thinks we all have a blacking factory: some awful moment, early on, when we surrender our childish hearts as surely as…

— Armistead Maupin

“Queers doing cowboy dancing. Who would’ve thunk it? Kids who grew up in Galveston and Tucson and Modesto, performing the folk dances…

— Armistead Maupin

My only regret about being gay is that I repressed it for so long. I surrendered my youth to the people I…

— Armistead Maupin

All I know is this: If you and papa are responsible for the way I am, then I thank you with all…

— Armistead Maupin

For the most part, I have a very manageable celebrity. People recognize me from time to time, and they usually say very…

— Armistead Maupin

“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

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

“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

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

“The people beneath the pendulum were in their own orbits of bliss or grief, which Shawna did not want to invade. Instead…

— Armistead Maupin

“She lifted the book to her nose and inhaled the scent lingering in its cardboard bones: a hint of rosewater and Lysol…

— Armistead Maupin

“Still, I gave her a call, wondering if she might have lost someone herself, but our talk was limited to the surreal…

— Armistead Maupin

“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

“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

“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

The hell of it is, I know the answer. The answer is that you never, ever, rely on another person for your…

— Armistead Maupin

I think there are strands in all of our lives that can be seen if we step back to recognize them. Coincidence…

— Armistead Maupin

“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

I consider myself much better adjusted than Gabriel.

— Armistead Maupin

“Things speed up as you circle the drain.”

— Armistead Maupin

There is no fifth destination.

— Armistead Maupin