The world changes in direct proportion to the number of people willing to be honest about their lives.

- Armistead Maupin

When I started writing Tales of the City I was one year away from being a mental illness. It wasn't until 1975 that the American Psychiatric Associat…

- Armistead Maupin

Being in love is the only transcendent experience.

- Armistead Maupin

But I will say that the drugs are much more ferocious then they used to be. There are people wrecking their lives with addiction, which seems much mo…

- Armistead Maupin

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

- Armistead Maupin

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 opportuni…

- Armistead Maupin

Oh, Mona, we're all damned fools! Some of us just have more fun with it than others. Loosen up, dear! Don't be so afraid to cry . . . or laugh, for t…

- Armistead Maupin

The hell of it is, I know the answer. The answer is that you never, ever, rely on another person for your peace of mind. If you do, you're screwed bu…

- Armistead Maupin

My mother once told me that if a married couple puts a penny in a pot for every time they make love in the first year, and takes a penny out every ti…

- Armistead Maupin