“Whoever had created humanity had left in a major design flaw.It was its tendency to bend at the knees.”

“Whoever had designed her loved ships and knew the sea: he had designed her with his heart.”

“These houses had been plunked down with an alarming randomness -- unevenly spaced, on crooked lines, like whoever had designed the place had said, "We'll just follow this cat, and wherever he sits down, we'll build something.”

“Humans are so busy asking about who or what had built the pyramids.For me, whoever had built pyramids, the message is so clear and simple, "we are higher than human race in the food chain.”

“The wind had its arms around them. The sea dandled them on its knee.”

“And it may be that a crowd at a particular moment of history creates the object to justify its gathering, as it did at the first Human Be-In and Monterey Pop and Woodstock. Or it may be that two generations of war and surveillance had left people craving the embodiment of their own unease in the form of a lone, unsteady man on a slide guitar.”