Armistead Maupin Quotes

Having people I love around me - friends and family - is great, but I don't necessarily need a relationship.

However successful you are, there is no substitute for a close relationship. We all need them.

I was in my early 30s, and I longed for real friendships and real relationships, and I started asking myself why I didn't have that. I had a couple of male friends, but every time I would hang out with them, it felt like there was something keeping us apart.

Honestly, humans are social creatures that really crave intimacy, and I think that the friends I have who are trying to somehow go it alone are suffering for it.

It's a lot easier to find a friend on television than love.

I don't want to be alone my whole life. It is much more fun to share what you have than to have it to yourself. And it isn't like I don't have love in my life. I have a lot of friends who love me and who I love.

It would be nice to have someone to go back to, a girl to call at the end of the night after a long day.

How we need another soul to cling to.

I love nicknames. It makes me feel loved. It makes me feel less alone in this world.

I think the most important thing in life is relationships. I think that feeds us almost like food.

If one is desperate for love, I suggest looking at one's friends and family and see if love is all around. If not, get a new set of friends, a new family.

How genuine is my capacity for love if there is no one for me to love, to laugh with, to treat tenderly, to be trusted by?

People crave comfort, people crave connection, people crave community.

The most real thing of all, the only thing any of us wants, is to matter to somebody. To feel and share love, even on a friendship level or as deep as a romantic one. Who doesn't want that?

Of course I'd like someone in my life. And of course, when I go home in the evening, I wish there was someone waiting for me. But very honestly, I don't have time to be lonely. My work fills up most of my day, and when I get home, I just want to sleep.

I am not a lonely person. I am happily married and not looking for companions on social media.

Relationships are so important to all of us.

It's not just the number of friends you have, and it's not whether or not you're in a committed relationship. It's the quality of your close relationships that matters.

Because everyone has love or wants love there are always problems. And if you don't have problems, you're probably leading a boring life.

Everybody understands companionship, wants it, gets it, no matter what it looks like.

friendship is love made bearable.

Friendship's the wine of life.

God gives us relatives; thank God, we can choose our friends.

Among those whom I like or admire, I can find no common denominator, but among those whom I love, I can: all of them make me laugh.

What's life without love? You can accomplish everything you want in life, but without anyone to share it with, what's it really worth?