My youth would be like that, the slow decay of cherished myths—about politics and race, about love itself—until nothing was left but compost from which something authentic could finally begin to grow.
Armistead Maupin
My youth would be like that, the slow decay of cherished myths—about politics and race, about love itself—until nothing was left but compost from which something authentic could finally begin to grow.
Armistead Jones Maupin, Jr. ( MAW-pin; born May 13, 1944) is an American writer notable for Tales of the City, a series of novels set in San Francisco.
