How desperate do you have to be to start doing push-ups to solve your problems?
~ Karl Ove Knausgaard
The logistics of mat placement was deeply stressful, in a way that made me feel like I understood the primal conflicts for land that formed the basis of modern history.
~ Elif Batuman
"How I Plan to Get in Shape: Read (and Then Maybe Exercise)" in the NYT, by book critic Dwight Garner, was so full of great quotes that I have to recommend the whole piece.