“Even older and just as rich, the ritual of Kappa Alpha Order thrilled his soul and permeated his mind. By the end of the ceremony he was so awed, so filled with idealism, so saturated with nebulous aspirations, that he gazed with love on all his brothers…He floated down the stairs of the old Administration Building that night new born and shining, warm and secure in the midst of a group that no outside force could penetrate nor unsuspected evil ever tarnish. Porter was a Knight of Kappa Alpha Order (193)”

“Of a sudden he felt that fraternity life was the only way to exist at college. How could he have doubted? (126)”

“He's a good boy, he takes instruction well; I just can't think of enough things to tell him not to do.”

“It didn't amount to a fart in a windstorm, nohow.”

“I haven't learned yet to be the instrument of unconscious good.”

“...went into convulsions of pleasure at the sight of him.”

“They'd made love with such force she'd scratched his sides with her fingernails. With her, he discovered new depths of erotic imagination; he wanted things that had never entered his mind before...She was his inspiration, so unremitting that he started to wear his shirts pulled out over his trousers in order to hide his frequent erections.”