Caligo memnon, the owl butterfly, ranges from Mexico to Colombia...Caged magpie jays at La Pacifica readily ate adults, and I myself found no objectionable taste when I ate several.

-- P. J. DeVries, Costa Rican Natural History

I find myself in poetry

" 'Poetry has been attacked by an ignorant and frightened bunch of bores who don't understand how it's made, and the trouble with these creeps' -- and here he's talking about professors, about people like me -- 'is they wouldn't know poetry if it came up and buggered them in broad daylight.' "

--my advisor, interrupting his reading of an Allen Ginsberg quotation to provide clarification during lecture