Football is Lotto for kids from economically vulnerable neighborhoods. — Steve Almond Football Copy Share Image
Misery loves another idiot with a jukebox where his soul should be. — Steve Almond Idiot Copy Share Image
I happen to love football so much and hate myself for loving it. — Steve Almond Football Copy Share Image
Nothing on Earth so beautiful as the final haul on Halloween night. — Steve Almond Beautiful Copy Share Image
The truth is, every sport has been turned into a huge, nihilistic business. — Steve Almond Business Copy Share Image
Football offers us a sanitized spectacle of combat that has a clear resolution, which we need more and more today given our… — Steve Almond Copy Share Image
I have a hard time defending the production of candy, given that it is basically crack for children and makes them dependent… — Steve Almond Candy Copy Share Image
We need books...because we are all, in the private kingdoms of our hearts, desperate for the company of a wise, true friend. — Steve Almond Book Copy Share Image
“Time is a track that loops back on itself, where memories rattle like tin trains. How had I been spending my days,… — Steve Almond Fitness Copy Share Image
I do think, as crazy as it sounds, that sports is an addiction and that it should be accorded some of the… — Steve Almond Addiction Copy Share Image
It is in these moments of tender and ridiculous nostalgia that I know something inside me is still broken. — Steve Almond Copy Share Image
“The consensus was that I was an elitist, which is a right-wing term for someone smarter than you.” — Steve Almond Copy Share Image
At about the age of ten, during a late summer visit to Sears to buy school clothes, I became aware of the… — Steve Almond Age Copy Share Image
“Narration, after all, isn’t just a literary function. It represents the human capacity to tell stories in such a manner that they… — Steve Almond Adventure Copy Share Image
Just imagine what would happen if Obama grew a pair and in his last year in office just said, "Forget it. Football… — Steve Almond Community Copy Share Image
Part of what depresses me so much about football is that it's so clearly about exploiting people, most of them poor boys… — Steve Almond Boys Copy Share Image
A lot of what I'm having to do to get myself weaned from football is really limit what media I allow myself… — Steve Almond Copy Share Image
I love men, the restlessness of their corrupted souls, the way they hide their heavy, murderous hearts, their sudden delicacies and small… — Steve Almond Copy Share Image
Why are people so fascinated by how to eat Valomilks?’ She said, ‘Well, Dad, they’re round and they’re messy. But that’s what… — Steve Almond Dad Copy Share Image
Much as I love stories, I think I'll only be satisfied with myself as a writer if I'm able to produce a… — Steve Almond Book Copy Share Image
“In practice, the Internet functions more frequently as a hive of distraction, a simulated world through which most of us flit from… — Steve Almond Distraction Copy Share Image
Art arises from loss. I wish this weren't the case. I wish that every time I met a new woman and she… — Steve Almond Copy Share Image
Obama said, basically, "I wouldn't let any son of mine play football, though I do watch." And that struck me as remarkable!… — Steve Almond Amusement Copy Share Image
But something occurred to me as I sped through that dirty shroud of fog, something Vonnegut has been trying to explain to… — Steve Almond Copy Share Image
“One of the reasons I hate Hollywood so much is that they portray the travails of teen life as so innocuous and… — Steve Almond Business Copy Share Image
But I can think of nothing on earth so beautiful as the final haul on Halloween night, which, for me, was ten… — Steve Almond Copy Share Image
It's like this when you fall hard for a musician. It's a crush with religious overtones. You listen to the songs and… — Steve Almond Bridges Copy Share Image
I don't really think of my narrator in terms of gender. I think of them much more in basic emotional terms. As… — Steve Almond Copy Share Image
I'm going to proportion more time to organizing and taking action and less time to passively consuming news that is dispiriting me.… — Steve Almond Action Copy Share Image
“This is what songs do, even dumb pop songs: they remind us that emotions are not an inconvenient and vaguely embarrassing aspect… — Steve Almond Business Copy Share Image
“My own kind. I'm not sure there's a name for us. I suspect we're born this way: our hearts screwed in tight,… — Steve Almond Born this way Copy Share Image
“Music has become more pervasive and portable than ever. But it feels less previous in the bargain. I don't want to confuse… — Steve Almond Music Copy Share Image
“The connection being that in my head all language began in song and that the best stories inevitably reutrn to song, to… — Steve Almond Beautiful words Copy Share Image
“But I come to stories in the naked hope they will fuck me up .” — Steve Almond Hope Copy Share Image
Capitalism doesn't consider morality. It considers profitability. — Steve Almond Capitalism Copy Share Image
Most forms of rage, after all, are only sloppy cloaks for grief. — Steve Almond Anger Copy Share Image
