“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.”
“I could either buy one missile, or 88,000 cups of coffee. Both would wake me up, but the coffee would also wake up North Korea. I’ll go with the coffee. ”
“This is not some silly game...This is life and death Angels and demons.”
“I had three long conversations with Marusya over a cup of coffee. She told me her whole rather silly story. To some degree we became friends. I like people like that--doomed, dying, helpless, and brazen. I always say, if you're in trouble, you're not sinning.”
“but I felt that Tom would drift on forever seeking, a little wistfully, for the dramatic turbulence of some irrecoverable football game”
“One more cup of coffee for the roadOne more cup of coffee 'fore I go.To the valley below.”