“Me and a book is a party. Me and a book and a cup of coffee is an orgy.”

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

“My strength returns to me with my cup of coffee and the reading of the psalms.”

“You can't get a cup of tea large enough or a book long enough to suit me.”

“You'll never find a cup of tea big enough or a book long enough to suit me.”

“Writing a book is like masturbation, and making a movie is like an orgy.”

“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.”

“All the world knows me in my book, and my book in me.”

“Books make me feel safe. Books make me feel normal.”

“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.”