93 Quotes by Armistead Maupin

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

Your hair has always been amazing. I remember those fabulous chopsticks you used to wear."Anna wore a look of amused chagrin. "I'm afraid Mr. Greenleaf won't let me wear those anymore. I took a little tumble one night and almost harpooned the cat."This was very much the Anna she remembered: warm and self-mocking and complete present. And somehow that made it even harder to accept how frail she'd become since Mary Ann's last visit.

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

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

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

If you want to know who the oppressed minorities in America are, simply look at who gets their own shelf in the bookstore. A black shelf, a women's shelf, and a gay shelf.

I have always preferred an occasional orgy to a nightly routine.""What?""Aunt Augusta said that. In Travels with My Aunt.

Such a suitable word, stroke. I'd heard it since childhood without fully understanding its meaning, but it sounded, even through a haze of sleep and dope, just like itself: abrupt and brutal and irreversible. A stroke of lightning, the stroke of midnight, the stroke of a pen.

What about San Francisco?""What about it?""Did you like it?"She shrugged. "It was O.K.""Just O.K.?"She laughed. "Good God!""What?""You're all alike here.""How so?" he asked."You demand adoration for the place. You're not happy until everybody swears undying love for every nook and cranny of every precious damn --""Whoa, missy.""Well, it's true. Can't you just worship it on your own? Do I have to sign an affadavit?"He chuckled. "We're that bad, are we?""You bet your ass you are.