Cat's Cradle

by Kurt Vonnegut Jr.

“As the poet said, Mom, ‘Of all the words of mice and men, the saddest are, “It might have been.” ’”

“Beware of the man who works hard to learn something, learns it, and finds himself no wiser than before,” Bokonon tells us. “He is full of murderous resentment of people who are ignorant without having come by their ignorance the hard way.”