“but isn't there always
one good thing
to look back on?

think of
how many cups of coffee we
drank together.”

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

“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.”

“I remember some artists who said this world isn't worth anything, that it is a pigsty, that we are going nowhere, that God is dead, and all those things. Bad literature is this. To expose your navel, to tell how you drank your morning coffee amid general disgust, with everything around you rotting. While the world is dying, I drink my coffee. Or I perform my little sex acts. This is old-fashioned. One must cross this neurotic curtain.”

“At the rate things are going here, all of Africa will be free before we can get a lousy cup of coffee.”

“We drank our coffee the Russian way. That is to say we had vodka before it and vodka afterwards.”

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

“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.”

“The bottom line is, what defines you isn't how many times you crash, but the number of times you get back on the bike. As long as it's one more. you're all good.”

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