To Strip A Man Of All Loyalties

Surely No One Can Be Sure He Has Visited Cienega; People Say To Themselves, Do They Not: 'was It A Vision; Or Have I, Some Time Or Other, Seen Dusk In A Valley Like This?'

And Who Is Any Of Us, That Without Starvation He Can Go Through The Kingdoms Of Starvation?

All Poets And Story Tellers Alive Today Make A Single Brotherhood; They Are Engaged In A Single Work, Picturing Our Human Life. Whoever Pictures Life As He Sees It, Reassembles In His Own Way The Details Of Existence Which Affect Him Deeply, And So Creates A Spiritual World Of His Own.

When An Individual Fear Or Apathy Would Cause Us To Pass By The Unfortunate, Then Life Is Of No Account.

So Much Of What Is Best In Us Is Bound Up In Our Love Of Family, That It Remains The Measure Of Our Stability Because It Measures Our Sense Of Loyalty. All Other Pacts Of Love Or Fear Derive From It And Are Modeled Upon It.