“As soon as coffee is in your stomach, there is a general commotion. Ideas begin to move… similes arise, the paper is covered. Coffee is your ally and writing ceases to be a struggle.” – Honore de Balzac
“The powers of a man’s mind are directly proportioned to the quantity of coffee he drinks.” – Sir James Mackintosh
“Coffee is a language in itself.” – Jackie Chan
“I gave up coffee. It’s almost worse than giving up a lover.” – Sandra Bullock
“How much better is silence; the coffee cup, the table. How much better to sit by myself like the solitary sea-bird that opens its wings on the stake. Let me sit here for ever with bare things, this coffee cup, this knife, this fork, things in themselves, myself being myself.” – Virginia Woolf
“I think if I were a woman I’d wear coffee as a perfume.” – John Van Drute

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