Steve Almond

Misery loves another idiot with a jukebox where his soul should be.

— Steve Almond

Football is Lotto for kids from economically vulnerable neighborhoods.

— Steve Almond

All language is an aspiration to music.

— Steve Almond

I happen to love football so much and hate myself for loving it.

— Steve Almond

If you want to fight a cult, you've got to form a cult.

— Steve Almond

Nothing on Earth so beautiful as the final haul on Halloween night.

— Steve Almond

The truth is, every sport has been turned into a huge, nihilistic business.

— Steve Almond

Capitalism doesn't consider morality. It considers profitability.

— Steve Almond

Football offers us a sanitized spectacle of combat that has a clear resolution, which we need more and more today given our…

— Steve Almond

“Time is a track that loops back on itself, where memories rattle like tin trains. How had I been spending my days,…

— Steve Almond

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

I have a hard time defending the production of candy, given that it is basically crack for children and makes them dependent…

— Steve Almond

I do think, as crazy as it sounds, that sports is an addiction and that it should be accorded some of the…

— Steve Almond

It is in these moments of tender and ridiculous nostalgia that I know something inside me is still broken.

— Steve Almond

“The consensus was that I was an elitist, which is a right-wing term for someone smarter than you.”

— Steve Almond

There's an invisible army of woman and men who really don't get why we give so much of ourselves to football. And…

— Steve Almond

“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

Just imagine what would happen if Obama grew a pair and in his last year in office just said, "Forget it. Football…

— Steve Almond

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

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

I love men, the restlessness of their corrupted souls, the way they hide their heavy, murderous hearts, their sudden delicacies and small…

— Steve Almond

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

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

“In practice, the Internet functions more frequently as a hive of distraction, a simulated world through which most of us flit from…

— Steve Almond

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

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

But something occurred to me as I sped through that dirty shroud of fog, something Vonnegut has been trying to explain to…

— Steve Almond

But I can think of nothing on earth so beautiful as the final haul on Halloween night, which, for me, was ten…

— Steve Almond

“One of the reasons I hate Hollywood so much is that they portray the travails of teen life as so innocuous and…

— Steve Almond

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

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

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

“This is what songs do, even dumb pop songs: they remind us that emotions are not an inconvenient and vaguely embarrassing aspect…

— Steve Almond

“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

“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

“The connection being that in my head all language began in song and that the best stories inevitably reutrn to song, to…

— Steve Almond

Most forms of rage, after all, are only sloppy cloaks for grief.

— Steve Almond

“But I come to stories in the naked hope they will fuck me up .”

— Steve Almond

The answer is that we don't choose our freaks, they choose us.

— Steve Almond

“There is no sin in the realm of taste.”

— Steve Almond