"I am a well-known folklorist, an authority on the A——-s, a tribe I have no intention of disgracing by my interest. There are perhaps ten full-blooded A——-s left, four of them teen-age girls."
The History of Them All, Chapter 2: p. 4

"The bottom of the elevator shafter is accessible through the sub-basement. While I sat downtown preparing a paper on lemmings she crawled into the elevator shaft and sat there with her drawn-up knees (so the police determined from the mess). I came home every night at twenty to eleven, regular as Kant. She was going to teach me a lesson, my old wife."
The History of Them All, Chapter 5: pp. 6-7

"What a perfect night! I swear I can still feel the warmth of it, and what he did with Edith matters not at all, indeed, I marry them in their unlawful...