"Nice going, God!" [Cat's Cradle, pt. 1]

"God got lonesome.

So God said to some mud, 'Sit up!'

'See all I've made!' said God, 'the hills, the sea, the sky, the stars.'

And I was some of the mud that got to sit up and look around.

Lucky me, lucky mud.

I, mud, sat up and saw what a nice job God had done.

Nice going, God!

Nobody could have done it but you, God! I certainly couldn't have.

I feel very unimportant compared to You.

The only way I can feel the least bit important is to think of all the mud that didn't even get to sit up and look around.

I got so much, and most mud got so little."

- Kurt Vonnegut, Cat's Cradle