Coffee has two virtues: it is wet and warm.

Mothers are those wonderful people who can get up in the morning before the smell of coffee.

"All writers are vain, selfish and lazy, and at the very bottom of their motives lies a mystery. Writing a book is a long, exhausting struggle, like a long bout of some painful illness. One would never undertake such a thing if one were not driven by some demon whom one can neither resist nor understand."

"In the same way that a woman becomes a prostitute. First I did it to please myself, then I did it to please my friends, and finally I did it for money."

"I believe humans get a lot done, not because we're smart, but because we have thumbs so we can make coffee. "