More quotes by Kurt Vonnegut, Cat's Cradle

"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."
"Tiger got to hunt, bird got to fly;Man got to sit and wonder 'why, why, why?'Tiger got to sleep, bird got to land;Man got to tell himself he understand."
"Nothing is generous. New knowledge is a valuable commodity. The more truth we have to work with, the richer we are."
"You'll forget it when you're dead, and so will I. When I'm dead, I'm going to forget everything–and I advise you to do the same."
"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."