Armistead Maupin
11 quotes
Biography
Armistead Jones Maupin Jr. is an American writer notable for Tales of the City, a series of novels set in San Francisco.
"Being in love is the only transcendent experience."
"Laugh all you want and cry all you want and whistle at pretty men in the street and to hell with anybody who thinks you're a damned fool!"
"The film itself involves a New York City radio storyteller, Gabriel Noone, who strikes up a friendship with one of his fans, an abused 14-year-old teenager who is suffering from AIDS, who does not have much longer to live."
"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."
"The world changes in direct proportion to the number of people willing to be honest about their lives."
"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."
"I haven't lost faith in human nature and I haven't decided to be less compassionate to strangers."
"Nobody's happy. What's happy? Happiness is over when the lights come on"
"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."
"How could I possibly NOT be disappointed by what I would find? Nothing had ever met my expectation, since nothing could compete with my doctoring imagination, my pathetic compulsion to make the world quanter, funnier, kinder, and more mysterious than it actually was."
"I felt very close to God.... My friends say that's because I was always on my knees."