More quotes by Kurt Vonnegut, Cat's Cradle

"The Fourteenth Book is entitled, "What can a Thoughtful Man Hope for Mankind on Earth, Given the Experience of the Past Million Years?"It doesn't take long to read The Fourteenth Book. It consists of one word and a period. This is it: "Nothing."
"She was a fool, and so am I, and so is anyone who thinks he sees what God is Doing, [writes Bokonon]."
"Beware of the man who works hard to learn something, learns it, and finds himself no wiser than before."
"Americans... are forever searching for love in forms it never takes, in places it can never be. It must have something to do with the vanished frontier."
"No wonder kids grow up crazy. A cat's cradle is nothing but a bunch of X's between somebody's hands, and little kids look and look and look at all those X's . . .""And?""No damn cat, and no damn cradle."