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If I had my way ... We would lock ourselves away from that madness out there ...

A half-hour conversation with Binky was like eating a Whitman Sampler in one sitting.

Solitude was no reason for sloppiness

Her apartment seemed fussier than ever, as if the doilies and tassels had taken to breeding in their unguarded moments.

Being in love is the only transcendent experience.

Pete thinks we all have a blacking factory: some awful moment, early on, when we surrender our childish hearts as surely as we lose our baby teeth.

If she ever had a child, she would want him to grow up in San Francisco, where Mardi Gras was celebrated at least five times a year.

I've always believed you can get closer to the truth by pretending not to speak it.

Laugh all you want and cry all you want and whistle at pretty men in the street and to hell with anybody who thinks you're a damned fool!

There is no fifth destination.

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

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

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

I've included these little jokes and mysteries in my writing for the amusement of readers.

Small world, huh?"
She grinned lewdly. "Not particularly. I'd say you've just run out of material.

She was Anna Madrigal, a self-made woman, and there was no one else in the world exactly like her.

Things speed up as you circle the drain.
Armistead Maupin on ageing

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

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

Hey, you look at your tits; I'll look at mine! (Michael Tolliver, Tales of the City)

Somepeople drink to foregt, I smoke to remember Anna Madrigal in Tales of the City ...

Then they would both dissolve in giggles, bowing in their mirth to the awful hopelessness of it all.

Could you conjugate that? To sleaze. I sleaze. You sleaze. We all have sleazen.

I consider myself much better adjusted than Gabriel.

Well, maybe it has to do with the fact that I was a complete Hitchcock fanatic from age 9.

The world changes in direct proportion to the number of people willing to be honest about their lives.

I couldn't write - or wouldn't write, at any rate - unable to face the grueling self-scrutiny that fiction demands

Life goes on, sport.

But it's amazing how many people think that gay men should slink off into the shadows when it comes to having friendships with children.

Jesus Christ, you people are complicated.

It's time to get mad, Michael. Niceness doesn't count for shit!

When I get back from this book tour, I'm planning to learn the internet. Maybe I can hook up in cyberspace.

I think that instinct, that storytelling instinct, rescued me most of my life.

He should have made a checklist for every step of this transformational journey to radical self-expression.

The worst of times in San Francisco was still better than the best of times anywhere else.

A pristine landscape was perfection itself; it was only when you added people that everything changed.

Outing is a nasty word for telling the truth.

I tend to prefer the shelter of fiction.

If you're going to be degenerate, you might as well be a lady about it, don't you think?

Brian's face turned pouty. "So you were just blowing smoke up my ass." Anna smiled dimly. "You may have been inhaling, dear, but I wasn't blowing.

It makes more sense if you've lived it." A

You cannot be loved by someone who doesn't want to know you.

Don't listen when they scoff
That you are too old and I am young,
For I am old enough to know better
And you are young enough not to care.

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All I know is this: If you and papa are responsible for the way I am, then I thank you with all my heart, for it is the light and the joy of my life.

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

We're gonna be ... I mean people like you and me ... we're gonna be fifty-year-old libertines in a world full of twenty-year-old Calvinists.

Like I've always said, love wouldn't be blind if the braille weren't so damned much fun.

I haven't lost faith in human nature and I haven't decided to be less compassionate to strangers.

I believe very firmly that gay people of every stripe and age should be role models for all children, and that means interacting with them.

Too much of a good thing is wonderful.

Needing and loving are two different things.

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

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

The rules of a well-ordered life were never enough when other people refused to obey them.

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

Umbed by disappointment and betrayal, like a child who had been awakened suddenly from a summer dream about christmas morning.

Her Mao tse-tung t-shirt was stretched so tightly across her chest that the Chairman was grinning broadly