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

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

Solitude was no reason for sloppiness — Armistead Maupin

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

Being in love is the only transcendent experience. — Armistead Maupin

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. — Armistead Maupin

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. — Armistead Maupin

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

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! — Armistead Maupin

There is no fifth destination. — Armistead Maupin

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

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

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

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

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

Everybody is Other in Maupin. — Christopher Bram

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

Jesus Christ, you people are complicated. — Armistead Maupin

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

I consider myself much better adjusted than Gabriel. — Armistead Maupin

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. — Armistead Maupin

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

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

Life goes on, sport. — Armistead Maupin

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

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

Outing is a nasty word for telling the truth. — Armistead Maupin

I tend to prefer the shelter of fiction. — Armistead Maupin

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

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. — Armistead Maupin

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

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

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. — Armistead Maupin

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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. — Armistead Maupin

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

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. — Armistead Maupin

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

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

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. — Armistead Maupin

Too much of a good thing is wonderful. — Armistead Maupin

Needing and loving are two different things. — Armistead Maupin

An obsessed reader figured that 'Armistead Maupin' was an anagram for 'is a man I dreamt up'. — Christopher Bram

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

I want to deceive him just long enough to make him want me.. — Armistead Maupin

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

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

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

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