“We keep giggling, happy and nervous, tickled by an incomplete innocence. We both sense that some dark joke is being played on us, even if we can't quite grasp the punch line.”

“It does not mat­ter. The joke is we all have the same punch line.”

“The lines we draw that make us who we are are potent by virtue of being non-negotiable, and even, at some level, indefensible.”

“In the end, perhaps we should simply imagine a joke; a long joke that's continually retold in an accent too thick and strange to ever be completely understood. Life is that joke my friends. The soul is the punch line.”

“When we quit playing Hokey Pokey with God and keep our whole self in, His blessings pursue us!”

“We need to approach the Bible each day with a spirit of deep humility, recognizing that our understanding of spiritual truth is at best incomplete and to some extent inaccurate ... we should approach the Scriptures in humility and expect the Spirit to humble us even further as we continue being taught by Him from His Word.”