quotes by Steve Almond

"The answer is that we don't choose our freaks, they choose us."
— Steve Almond (Candyfreak: A Journey through the Chocolate Underbelly of America)

"It is in these moments of tender and ridiculous nostalgia that I know something inside me is still broken."
— Steve Almond (My Life in Heavy Metal)

"Every now and then, I'll run into someone who claims not to like chocolate, and while we live in a country where everyone has the right to eat what they want, I want to say for the record that I don't trust these people, that I think something is wrong with them, and that they're probably - and this must be said - total duds in bed."
— Steve Almond (Candyfreak: A Journey through the Chocolate Underbelly of America)

"I love men, the restlessness of their corrupted souls, the way they hide their heavy, murderous hearts, their sudden delicacies and small shocking acts of tenderness."
— Steve Almond (Which Brings Me to You: A Novel in Confessions)

"Art arises from loss. I wish this weren't the case. I wish that every time I met a new woman and she rocked my world, I was inspired to write my ass off. But that is not what happens. What happens is we lie around in bed eating chocolate and screwing. Art is what happens when things don't work out, when you're licking your wounds. Art is, to a larger extent than people would like to think, a productive licking of the wounds."
— Steve Almond (Candyfreak: A Journey through the Chocolate Underbelly of America)

"But something occurred to me as I sped through that dirty shroud of fog, something Vonnegut has been trying to explain to the rest of us for most of his life. And that is this: Despair is a form of hope. It is an acknowledgment of the distance between ourselves and our appointed happiness.
At certain moments, it is reason enough to live."
— Steve Almond

"The single biggest reason I got my stories taken in various literary magazines - and I want to stress this - is because I refused to give up. Period."
— Steve Almond