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
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
“Garbage, you know, is very revealing.It beats the shit out of tarot cards.” — Armistead Maupin Artist Copy Share Image
I think a lot of gay people who are not dealing with their homosexuality get into right- wing politics. — Armistead Maupin Gay Copy Share Image
“Mona … lots of things are more binding than sex. They last longer too.” — Armistead Maupin Mona Copy Share Image
“Actions have consequences. In actions have them. We set things in motion by what we don't do.” — Armistead Maupin Actions Copy Share Image
I'm not sure I even need a lover, male or female. Sometimes I think I'd settle for five good friends. — Armistead Maupin Female 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 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
“My life is full of love; I designed it that way. I try to make my own experience about love and I… — Armistead Maupin Copy Share Image
I believe very firmly that gay people of every stripe and age should be role models for all children, and that means… — Armistead Maupin Age Copy Share Image
“She told me about the cop. And the movie star, and the construction worker. You're not having a life Michael, you're fucking… — Armistead Maupin Copy Share Image
I think many writers write because it's a convenient way to explain themselves to themselves. We take the chaos and the turmoil… — Armistead Maupin Bullshit Copy Share Image
I surrendered my youth to the people I feared when I could have been out there loving someone. Don't make that mistake… — Armistead Maupin Copy Share Image
But it's amazing how many people think that gay men should slink off into the shadows when it comes to having friendships… — Armistead Maupin Children 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
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
“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
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
“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
“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
“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
“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
I've always believed you can get closer to the truth by pretending not to speak it. — 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
“Hey, you look at your tits; I'll look at mine! (Michael Tolliver, Tales of the City)” — Armistead Maupin 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
I think that instinct, that storytelling instinct, rescued me most of my life. — Armistead Maupin Instinct 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
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
I felt very close to God… My friends say that's because I was always on my knees. — 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 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 Copy Share Image
The film itself involves a New York City radio storyteller, Gabriel Noone, who strikes up a friendship with one of his fans,… — Armistead Maupin Copy Share Image
I'm the age now that Rock was when he picked me up, so I can understand how he felt - how his… — Armistead Maupin Age Copy Share Image
My mother once told me that if a married couple puts a penny in a pot for every time they make love… — Armistead Maupin Couple Copy Share Image
If you want to know who the oppressed minorities in America are, simply look at who gets their own shelf in the… — Armistead Maupin America Copy Share Image
All I know is this: If you and papa are responsible for the way I am, then I thank you with all… — Armistead Maupin Heart Copy Share Image
