Nothing is free. You got to pay to be in society. First you start with homework.

My mind is a raging torrent, flooded with rivulets of thought cascading into a waterfall of creative alternatives.

As long as the world is turning and spinning, we're gonna be dizzy and we're gonna make mistakes.

I've been accused of vulgarity. I say that's bullshit.

If you stand on a soapbox and trade rhetoric with a dictator you never win.

Hope for the Best. Expect the worst. Life is a play. We're unrehearsed.

Life literally abounds in comedy if you just look around you.

If presidents can't do it to their wives, they do it to their country.

Tragedy is when I cut my finger. Comedy is when you fall into an open sewer and die.

Humor is just another defense against the universe.

I don't know what to say so I'll just say what's in my heart...badoom, badoom, badoom.

Sometimes those who love most deeply can't get past the weight of their own feelings.

I try not to speak about all the charities and people I help, because I believe we can only be truly generous when we expect nothing in return.

A book is a loaded gun in the house next door. Burn it. Take the shot from the weapon. Breach man's mind. Who knows who might be the target of a well-read man?

In England justice is open to all - like the Ritz Hotel.

I've always liked the idea of improvised music. Improvised anything. It's what conversation is.

The headmistress was an able instructress in French and history and we learned with her as fast as fear could teach us.

There is no such thing as second place. Either you're first or you're nothing.

Do you know what we are those of us who count as pillars of society? We are society's tools, neither more nor less.

thats why you cant be worried about the world. theyll just do you in anyway. you can't depend on them because sooner or later theyll turn on you or just disapear and leave you there alone.

There's definitely a melancholic ingredient in Cafe Tacvba concerts in the United States versus in other places.