Steve Almond

“The central struggle of parenthood is to let our hopes for our children outweigh our fears.”

“The essential truth of life, for me, is that we are all in this together.”

“Radical empathy is not about you. It's not about what you think, or what you feel. It's about what someone else is going through.”

“We are all born into a losing struggle.”

“The point of the reading list is not to finish it. It's to have it.”

“Don’t look for the right person. Be the right person.”

“Most of us are forgiven. The real question is, are we willing to forgive ourselves?”

“You have to be willing to be a bad writer to become a good one.”

“Football is a sport that depends on a permanent underclass of men willing to sacrifice their bodies and minds for our entertainment.”

“The job of the writer is to make sense of the world, then to make that sense trackable, and hopefully, beautiful.”