An obsessed reader figured that ‘Armistead Maupin’ was an anagram for ‘is a man I dreamt up’.

Trust the tale, not the teller.

There was no point in doing art if you were going to be second-rate.

Stories have the ability to take us inside all kinds of life.

A disproportionate number of stories are love stories – and what is homosexuality but a special narrative of love?

Sociologists say a neighbourhood is perceived as gay if anywhere between 15 to 25 percent of the residents are homosexual.

Everybody is Other in Maupin.

In the new style, homosexuals and heterosexuals could be equally unhappy, equally happy, and equally screwed up.

Free to call a spade a spade (and a cock a cock).