from last year’s John Dos Passos Prize for Literature winner Kent Haruf’s reading/acceptance,

“It’s not pretty but it’s beautiful if you know how to look at it.”

&

“We may not be the smartest sons-of-bitches but we sure know how to kill weeds.”

&& my favorite, a poem,

“Daniel Boone shot a raccoon/in a lagoon/in the month of June.”