Cat's Cradle Ice Nine Quotes

#1. One of the ready advantages of writing a road or quest story is that it mirrors the experience of writing a novel.

Chang-rae Lee

#2. Man's most important achievement is not about standing up and start walking but, standing up to speak the truth.

Sukant Ratnakar

#3. We do not despise all those who have vices, but we do despise those that have no virtue.

Francois De La Rochefoucauld

#4. ...the moron who thought love was forever.

Daniel Handler

#5. The love for a child is more an unconditional sort of love ... Although some parents are really narcissistic. In general, I think there is an expectation that love will be unconditional, but obviously it's not - even after living with someone for years.

Kim Gordon

#6. Great things are won by great dangers.

Herodotus

#7. Maybe it's our sins that give God consolation when he finally has to give us cancer.

Chuck Palahniuk

#8. I talked to the general counsel of the DNC, and he assures me that every step along the way, when we were notified of these issues, that we changed systems, changed procedures, but these hackers are so sophisticated that they changed procedures.

Donna Brazile

#9. Mad cow disease is caused by a prion, a weirdly folded protein molecule that triggers weird folding in other molecules, like Kurt Vonnegut's infectious form of water, ice-nine, in his great early novel Cat's Cradle.

David Quammen