Love Quote by Armistead Maupin

Maupin takes a cliche that’s usually used to excuse bad judgment and flips it into an argument for pleasure. “Love is blind” tends to scold: you’re not seeing clearly, you’re ignoring red flags. Maupin’s punchline turns that moralizing into mischief. If love can’t see, it’s not because we’re helpless victims of fate; it’s because we’re busy touching, exploring, enjoying the textures. The braille joke isn’t just a sight gag. It’s an erotic theory: intimacy is a different kind of knowledge, one that privileges contact over surveillance.

The subtext is distinctly Maupin: a refusal to let romance be policed by respectability, and a queer sensibility that treats innuendo as a kind of truth-telling. “So damned much fun” is doing heavy lifting. It drags the proverb out of the church of solemn love and into a world where desire is allowed to be funny, bodily, even a little improper. That profanity isn’t just spice; it’s a declaration that pleasure has moral standing.

Context matters because Maupin’s work has long pushed against shame, especially around sexuality and chosen family. The line reads like a wink from someone who’s watched people demand “clarity” in relationships when what they really want is control. He suggests that maybe blindness isn’t always denial; sometimes it’s consent to a different sense. Love, in this framing, isn’t stupid. It’s tactile, curious, and happily distracted.