“It's better to go through life without letting these hormones rule us and make us do crazy things.”

“Pinky swears are still one of the last bonds people know not to break.”

“For grace to be grace, it must give us things we didn't know we needed and take us places where we didn't know we didn't want to go. As we stumble through the crazily altered landscape of our lives, we find that God is enjoying our attention as never before. ”

“The scientific method is nothing more than a system of rules to keep us from lying to each other.”

“Ruling the world is overrated. It would really cut into your leisure time.”

“Only Christ could have brought us all together, in this place, doing such absurd but necessary things.”

“Maybe the desert wisdom of the Dakotas can teach us to love anyway, to love what is dying, in the face of death, and not pretend that things are other than they are. The irony and wonder of all of this is that it is the desert's grimness, its stillness and isolation, that brings us back to love.”