“What on earth could be more luxurious than a sofa, a book, and a cup of coffee?… Was ever anything so civil?”

“What goes best with a cup of coffee? Another cup.”

“A forty-one inch bust and a lot of perseverance will get you more than a cup of coffee — a lot more. But most girls don't know what to do with what they've got.”

“There are two things in life that keep me motivated, a cup of coffee and a second cup of coffee.”

“It is surely easier to confess a murder over a cup of coffee than in front of a jury.”

“I used to think of that line in Allen Ginsberg's 'Howl', about the 'sad cup of coffee'... I have had cold coffee and hot coffee and lousy coffee, But I've never had a sad cup of coffee.”

“They had only ever discussed books but what, in this life, is more personal than books?”

“Usually she ordered a cup of coffee and a cup of tea, as well as a brownie, propping up her sadness with chocolate and caffeine so that it became an anxiety.”

“Sometimes life is merely a matter of coffee and whatever intimacy a cup of coffee affords.”

“It's a coffee cup."
She could hear the irritation in her own voice. "I know it's a coffee cup."
"I can't wait till you draw something really complicated, like the Brooklyn Bridge or a lobster. You'll probably send me a singing telegram.”