93 Quotes by Armistead Maupin

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

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 hiding behind words, Mama. Like family and decency and Christianity.

Needing and loving are two different things.

Nobody’s happy. What’s happy? Happiness is over when the lights come on.

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.

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

The bay was bright blue today, the hard fierce blue of a gas flame. If there was fog rolling in – and there must be, given the insistence of those horns – she couldn’t see it from here.

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

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