Quotes from Armistead Maupin

Taureans are stubborn as hell. They never want to tell you what sign they are.... But underneath that tough Taurus hide beats the heart of a hopeless romantic.

Nobody's happy. What's happy? Happiness is over when the lights come on." The older woman poured herself a glass of sangria. "Screw that," she said quietly. "What?" "Screw that. Wash your mouth out. Who taught you that half-assed existential drivel?

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

Being gay has taught me tolerance, compassion and humility. It has shown me limitless possibilities of living. It has given me people whose passion and kindness and sensitivity have provided a constant source of strength. It has brought me into the family of man, Mama, and I like it here.

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.

My life is full of love; I designed it that way. I try to make my own experience about love and I look for kindness in others. That's the thing I value the most: it will get you through everything.

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.

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

She told me about the cop. And the movie star, and the construction worker. You're not having a life Michael, you're fucking the Village People one at a time

Mona knocked at the wrong time. "Uh…yeah…wait a minute, Mona -- " Mona shouted through the door. "Room service, gentlemen. Just pull the covers up." Michael grinned at Jon. "My roommate. Brace yourself." Seconds later, Mona burst through the doorway with a tray of coffee and croissants. "Hi! I'm Nancy Drew! You must be the Hardy Boys!

if you're going to be degenerate, you might as well be a lady about it, don't you think?

It took so long to find you...and now I don't want it to change. I want it all set in amber. I want us and nobody else in the most selfish way you can imagine. I can't help it--I'm old-fashioned. I believe marriage is between a man and a man.

It all goes so fast, she thought. We dole out our lives in dinner parties and plane flights, and it's over before we know it. We lose everyone we love, if they don't lose us first, and every single thing we do is intended to distract us from that reality.

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.

Solitude was no reason for sloppiness

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

Needing and loving are two different things.

I don't see myself very clearly. Then look at the people who love you...Look into their eyes and see what they're seeing; that's all you need to know yourself.

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

Down the Peninsula at Cypress Lawn Cemetery, a woman in a paisley turban climbed out of a battered automobile and trudged up the hillside to a new grave. She stood there for a moment, humming to herself, then removed a joint from a tortoise-shell cigarette case and laid it gently on the grave. "Have fun," she smiled. "It's Colombian.

I consider myself much better adjusted than Gabriel.

Too much of a good thing is wonderful.

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

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.