I'm a staunch civil libertarian; I really believe that the individual is more important than any societal value.

Salvation is an individual relationship with God. I've always considered myself to be a devotional poet, and I consider myself to be a devotional novelist.

I don't think that brutality and idealism are mutually exclusive. It's a common denominator in my work - rabid idealism.

I'm truly an outsider in the poetry world. When I started writing, I was trying to move my poems away from modernist lines.

When you're reading my book, you're not in a four dimensional continuum, you're in my continuum, the Grossman continuum.

I love grand scale. One of the things that everybody mentions is that my novels are beautiful objects in the sense that the elements of the actual book are being extruded and re-contextualized.

If there is anything unique about my writing it is the way that I combine poetry and prose, not just on the level of having a poem here, prose there, but that it really is a true amalgam.

One could never pay too high a price for any sensation.

An act of God was defined as something which no reasonable man could have expected.

Ignore fact and reason, live entirely in the world of your own fantastic and myth-producing passions; do this whole-heartedly and with conviction, and you will become one of the prophets of your age.

It is just as important that we enter into a dialogue with China.

The figure is just the most represented tool to get thoughts and feelings across.

I'm not afraid of death because I don't believe in it. It's just getting out of one car, and into another

The greatest miracle of all, the human being.

Let's talk about the Gas Company because this is my favorite job.

All of us have at least one great voice deep inside.

If you in any way abate the doctrine of hell, it will abate your zeal.