The Incomplete Book of Running

by Peter Sagal

We have a tendency to purchase things with the expectation that they will improve us or cause us to become fitter, more active, but we believe this because we are the helpless objects of a multibillion-dollar, century-long campaign to convince us this is so, and partially because as a civilization we are only a few hundred years removed from believing that praying to the bones of saints would cure our arthritis.

We are evolved to run. Or we were “intelligently designed” to run, if you’re stupid.

We all believe the solution to an election that doesn’t go your way is the next election, not violent rebellion.

“All good things come by grace, and grace comes by art, and art does not come easy.”