“The birth of the reader must be at the cost of the death of the Author.”

Roland Barthes

“The best runner leaves no tracks.”

Lao Tzu

“The more and the longer you are silent the more you hear the tiny noises within silence, so that silence itself is always slipping away like a timid wild animal”

Sara Maitland

“I love the ‘Beast’, I look forward to him showing up because every time he does I handle him better.”

Jenn Shelton

“Carry enough cinderblocks, follow the plan, and meaning will emerge.”

Jeff Kelley

“One must first say one thing and then say another thing and these two things will usually contrast – but what makes the contrast so evident is the journey in between, which is the journey through a field of silence.”

Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

“A moment of complete happiness never occurs in the creation of a work of art. The promise of it is felt in the act of creation but disappears towards the completion of the work.”

Lucian Freud

“Pain takes no object, and like other interior states is impossible to express fully in the external shareable world.”

Robin Harvie

“As runners, all we can do is map our surroundings, to note, submit, and file its geographical extremities. In return we are helped to chart our own physical limitations.”

Robin Harvie

“It is a balance of the mental and the physical, the territory of idea and the territory of materials and places. Each work, though not by definition conceptual, realises a particular idea; drawing together a sense of order and physical endurance.”

Lucy Lippard

“Ninety percent of ultrarunning is mental, and the rest is in your head.”

Ray Zahab

“When you run, you disentangle yourself from logical thinking, from efficiency thinking, from thinking for a purpose; in running ideas are wild."

Abdelkader Benali