# Quote — Kurt Vonnegut, Cat's Cradle

> "If I were a younger man, I would write a history of human stupidity; and I would climb to the top of Mount McCabe and lie down on my back with my history for a pillow; and I would take from the ground some of the blue-white poison that makes statues of men; and I would make a statue of myself, lying on my back, grinning horribly, and thumbing my nose at You Know Who."

- Author: [Kurt Vonnegut](https://www.leafyquotes.com/kurt-vonnegut.md)
- Book: [Cat's Cradle](https://www.leafyquotes.com/kurt-vonnegut/cats-cradle.md)
- Source: [Wikiquote](https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Cat's_Cradle#Quotes) ([CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/))
- Quote page: https://www.leafyquotes.com/kurt-vonnegut/cats-cradle/if-i-were

## More from this book

> Of all the words of mice and men, the saddest are 'It might have been.'

[Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/kurt-vonnegut/cats-cradle/of-all-the.md)

> “Maturity,” Bokonon tells us, “is a bitter disappointment for which no remedy exists, unless laughter can be said to remedy anything.”

[Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/kurt-vonnegut/cats-cradle/maturity-bokonon-tells.md)

> A pissant is somebody who thinks he’s so damn smart, he never can keep his mouth shut. No matter what anybody says, he’s got to argue with it. You say you like something, and, by God, he’ll tell you why you’re wrong to like it. A pissant does his best to make you feel like a boob all the time. No matter what you say, he knows better.

[Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/kurt-vonnegut/cats-cradle/a-pissant-is-somebody.md)