To Strip A Man Of All Loyalties

A Gang Is The Same As A Wolf Pack; Gang Members Do Not Use Their Energies In Friendship With One Another, For They Do Not Know What Friendship Is. If They Are United, It Is By The Common Bond Of A Desire To Attack Their World.

The Moment One Accosts A Stranger Or Is Accosted By Him Is Above All In This Life The Moment Of Drama... Whoever We Meet Watches Us Intently At The Quick, Strange Moment Of Meeting, To See Whether We Are Disposed To Be Friendly.

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

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?'

To Strip A Man Of All Loyalties But Those To The State, Makes Him Not Only A Worm But A Monster, Without A Shred Of Humanity.