To Strip A Man Of All Loyalties

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.

The Most Frightening Pages Of History Are Those Which Reveal How Easily Conditions Making A Desert Of The Human Spirit May Come Into Existence, With The Oozings Away Of Incentive And Kindliness In Our Natural Social Structure.

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

For Support, I Fall Back On My Heart. Has A Man Any Fault A Woman Cannot Weave With And Try To Change Into Something Better, If The God Her Man Prays To Is A Mother Holding A Baby?

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?'