"If you really want to make your parents mad at you and you don't have enough nerve to be homosexual then go into the arts." - Vonnegut. The old man also said something terrifically funny about Diana after she died. He called her a "tweed who never read a book that we know" of and never said one memorable thing. (By the way, I had a hardcover first Cat's Cradle that Vonnegut inscribed to me and it was stolen right along with a very good second edition Franny & Zooey.)