93 Quotes by Armistead Maupin

You don’t have to keep up, dear. You just have to keep open.

Sooner or later, though, no matter where in the world we live, we must join the diaspora, venturing beyond our biological family to find our logical one, the one that actually makes sense for us.

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

Solitude was no reason for sloppiness.

I’m the age now that Rock was when he picked me up, so I can understand how he felt – how his fame limited his freedom. You get kinder as you go along.

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

But I’m acutely aware that the possibility of fraud is even more prevalent in today’s world because of the Internet and cell phones and the opportunity for instant communication with strangers.

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.

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