Football is the most successful cult, in terms of members and profits, in human history. Oh wait, there's also religion. — Steve Almond Cult 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 Delicacy Copy Share Image
The truth is, every sport has been turned into a huge, nihilistic business. — Steve Almond Business Copy Share Image
“If You Can Stand It, Play the Long Game . . . What I mean here is that you have to remain… — Steve Almond Day by day Copy Share Image
I happen to love football so much and hate myself for loving it. — Steve Almond Football Copy Share Image
“Our job, then, is two-fold: to focus on our own failings as writers. But also to speak more forcefully as advocates for… — Steve Almond Book 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 Arise 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 Bars Copy Share Image
Football is the kind of game where you have to really segregate kids from the general population and kind of colonize their… — Steve Almond Coaches Copy Share Image
There's something incredibly liberating about a holiday that encourages children to take candy from strangers — Steve Almond Candy 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
“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
Football offers us a sanitized spectacle of combat that has a clear resolution, which we need more and more today given our… — Steve Almond Clear Copy Share Image
The answer is that we don't choose our freaks, they choose us. — Steve Almond Answers Copy Share Image
I really believe that art has to play a role in changing the moral direction. Mean, selfish people are in charge of… — Steve Almond Art Copy Share Image
You've got all these parents who are projecting their pathologies of fear onto their kids and those kids are understandably messed up.… — Steve Almond Fear Copy Share Image
All readers come to fiction as willing accomplices to your lies. Such is the basic goodwill contract made the moment we pick… — Steve Almond Accomplices 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
Capitalism doesn't consider morality. It considers profitability. — Steve Almond Capitalism Copy Share Image
We are all, in the private kingdom of our hearts, desperate for the company of a wise, true friend. Someone who isn’t… — Steve Almond Business Copy Share Image
