San Miguel Quotes

#1. They seemed to be together as one, somewhere else in a place that was lighter than air.

Jess C. Scott

#2. Roy had communicated, days earlier, to the Zen master that I was a drunk - unreliable - either faint-hearted or vicious - therefore during the cerimony, don't ask Bukowski for the rings because Bukowski might not be there. or he might loose the rings, or vomit, or loose Bukowski

Charles Bukowski

#3. Never cut corners, or accept anything that's second-rate.

Bruce Oldfield

#4. They had painted in a grand rush to keep intact the purity of their first impression, the mood in which the motif had been conceived.

Irving Stone

#5. There is no belittling worse than to over praise a man.

Owen Feltham

#6. The moment you believe your experience is caused by other people, you are giving them your power.

Jeanne McElvaney

#7. After the third [San Miguel], I am likely to announce that all writing is fantasy anyway: that to set any event down in print is immediately to begin to lie about it, thank goodness; and that it's no less absurd and presumptuous to try on the skin of a bank teller than that of a Bigfoot or a dragon.

Peter S. Beagle

#8. The real requirement, if we are to avoid runaway global warming, is probably 80% by 2030, and almost no burning whatever of fossil fuels (coal, gas and oil) by 2050.

Gwynne Dyer

#9. I am all of my characters, but none of them in particular. I'm an expat in San Miguel de Allende, the community I write about.
My characters are never black and white--I'm interested in shades of gray and the way people rationalize the bad acts they commit.

John Scherber

#10. The history of the Internet is not, as some people have tried to make it, a libertarian just-so story. It is a messy tale in which the government played a significant role. That role was, however, far more subtle than the plans of industrial policy gurus or techno-boosting politicians.

Virginia Postrel

#11. Living by a love ethic we learn to value loyalty and a commitment to sustained bonds over material advancement.

Bell Hooks