“I just want a hot cup of coffee,black,and I don’t want to hear about your troubles.”

“I would certainly end up forever crying the blues into a coffee cup in a park for old men playingchess or silly games of some sort.”

“the soul has no skin; the soul only has insides that want to sing, finally, can't you hear it, brothers? softly, can't you hear it, brothers? a hot piece of ass and a new Cadillac ain't going to solve a god-damned thing.”

“but isn't there alwaysone good thingto look back on?think ofhow many cups of coffee wedrank together.”

“I avoided any direct reference to Jews and Blacks, who had never given me any trouble. All my trouble had come from white gentiles.”

“I stopped looking for a Dream Girl, I just wanted one that wasn't a nightmare.”

“I have one problem, I don’t hate people. They disgust me and I want to get away from them. I do not have hatred. I have an escape mechanism.”