Armistead Maupin Quotes

“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”
― Armistead Maupin, Further Tales of the City

“All right. Here's the deal, bigshot: suck my cock. Do that and I'll let you go. Straight trade."

He unzipped his fly and pulled down the elastic front of his shorts. Something that looked like a dead whitesnake fell out. Johnny observed the thin stream of blood driz-zling from it without surprise. The cop was bleeding from every other orifice, wasn't he?

"Speaking in the literature sense," the cop said, grinning, "this particular blowjob is going to be a little more Anne Rice than Armistead Maupin. I suggest you follow Queen Victoria's advice - close your eyes and think of strawberry shortcake.”
― Stephen King, Desperation

“An obsessed reader figured that ‘Armistead Maupin’ was an anagram for ‘is a man I dreamt up’.”
― Christopher Bram, Eminent Outlaws: The Gay Writers Who Changed America

“Everybody is Other in Maupin.”
― Christopher Bram, Eminent Outlaws: The Gay Writers Who Changed America

“The little pool was lighted now, the same glowing green-or so I imagined-as the eyes of the cats who slept in the shadows around it.”
― Armistead Maupin, Maybe the Moon