71 Quotes by Steve Almond

the essential work of literary art: they make us more human than we were before.

This was one of those mid-thirties moments when you take a look at the stale, half-chewed bagel your life has become and kiss jealousy on its smokey mouth.

All language is an aspiration to music.

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

attention is the first and final act act of love, and that the ultimate dwindling resource in the human arrangement isn't cheap oil or potable water or even common sense, but mercy.

We need books...because we are all, in the private kingdoms of our hearts, desperate for the company of a wise, true friend.

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

The craziest Peep-related candy I've ever gotten is a chocolate egg with a Peep inside it. Someone went to a lot of trouble to make that, which strikes me as both beautiful and pathetic.

I was saddled with this strange name, which meant that I was constantly, constantly, being serenaded with the Sometimes you feel like a nut Almond Joy/Mounds jingle.