“I've always believed you can get closer to the truth by pretending not...” — Armistead Maupin Quote

“I've always believed you can get closer to the truth by pretending not to speak it.”

“For the most part, I have a very manageable celebrity. People recognize me from time to time, and they usually say very appreciative things. It affords me a great deal of pleasure.”

“I can't imagine a more fulfilling thing for a writer than that you've made a strong impact on the lives of other people. Just because I've heard it before does not mean I don't want to hear it one more time.”

“I really recognized a part of myself - my true self as a child - in performances like Val Kilmer and Nicolas Cage. I mean, really big, muscular performances. I wanted to do that. I wanted to take that on. And I believed that I could.”

“When I was a child, I'd see a movie, I took it for what it was, I enjoyed it. And if I believed it I would tend to be more interested in knowing more about it.”

“Let's start with the euro. What on earth were we thinking? How could anyone with the faintest grasp of economics have believed it was anything other than sheer insanity to yoke together diverse national economies such as Greece, Ireland, Germany and Finland under a single exchange rate and a single interest rate?”