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

“Passing through the utility section [Ivy] considered getting herself a cup of coffee. Then she felt shock and shame over the fact that she was thinking about coffee while her planet was being set on fire. Then she poured herself a cup of coffee anyway and stepped into the Farm.”

“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.”

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

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

“Coffee isn't my cup of tea.”

“Against his will, Magnus found a smile curving his lips as he rummaged around for his big blue coffee cup that said BETTER THAN GANDALF across the front in sparkly letters. He was besotted; he was officially revolted by himself.”

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

“Coffee doesn't need a menu, it needs a cup! That's all it needs! Maybe a saucer underneath the cup- that's it!”

“Should I kill myself, or have a cup of coffee?”