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
“Then they would both dissolve in giggles, bowing in their mirth to the awful hopelessness of it all.” — Armistead Maupin Comedy 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
“He should have made a checklist for every step of this transformational journey to radical self-expression.” — Armistead Maupin 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
“..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
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
“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
“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
I had been a storyteller by instinct all my life. I was that boring little kid who made the rest of his… — Armistead Maupin Copy Share Image
When I started writing Tales of the City I was one year away from being a mental illness. It wasn't until 1975… — Armistead Maupin Copy Share Image
“Being gay has taught me tolerance, compassion and humility. It has shown me limitless possibilities of living. It has given me people… — Armistead Maupin Compassion 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 Diaspora 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
Writing is too hard not to do exactly what you want to do. It's a very draining and agonizing process for me,… — Armistead Maupin Copy Share Image
In her opinion, the parrots were annoying arrogant. You could buy the most beautiful one in town, she observed, but that won't… — Armistead Maupin Copy Share Image
I’m pissed off at my Republican family back in North Carolina, several of whom came to my wedding, but who went right… — Armistead Maupin Acting Copy Share Image
Mona knocked at the wrong time. “Uh…yeah…wait a minute, Mona -- ” Mona shouted through the door. “Room service, gentlemen. Just pull… — Armistead Maupin Boys Copy Share Image
“A pristine landscape was perfection itself; it was only when you added people that everything changed.” — Armistead Maupin Copy Share Image
The world changes in direct proportion to the number of people willing to be honest about their lives. — Armistead Maupin Change Copy Share Image
“Somepeople drink to foregt, I smoke to remember" Anna Madrigal in Tales of the City...” — Armistead Maupin Wine Copy Share Image
“Could you conjugate that? To sleaze. I sleaze. You sleaze. We all have sleazen.” — Armistead Maupin Sleaze Copy Share Image
I haven't lost faith in human nature and I haven't decided to be less compassionate to strangers. — Armistead Maupin Compassionate 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
If I had my way...We would lock ourselves away from that madness out there... — Armistead Maupin Copy Share Image
“Her Mao tse-tung t-shirt was stretched so tightly across her chest that the Chairman was grinning broadly” — Armistead Maupin Copy Share Image
I've included these little jokes and mysteries in my writing for the amusement of readers. — Armistead Maupin Books Copy Share Image
“It was like school spirit back in high school. He didn’t have it then, and he didn’t have it now. To him,… — Armistead Maupin High school Copy Share Image
“Brian’s face turned pouty. “So you were just blowing smoke up my ass.” Anna smiled dimly. “You may have been inhaling, dear,… — Armistead Maupin Blowing smoke 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 Copy Share Image
“Her apartment seemed fussier than ever, as if the doilies and tassels had taken to breeding in their unguarded moments.” — Armistead Maupin Imagery 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
