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

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

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

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.

Mga bata pa kayo. Pag pinaniwalaan namin kayong hindi kayo naglaro ng tubig kahit na basang-basa ang mga damit ninyo, kayo ang niloloko namin. Hindi kayo ang nakakapanloko.

Give me boredom. At least I know where I'm going to eat and sleep tonight.

Baseball life is a tough life on the family.

Some reproaches praise; some praises reproach.

[A digital snapshot] is meant primarily as a means of communication, and the images being sent are almost as ephemeral as speech, so rarely are they printed and made physical.

A servant of God has but one Master. It ill becomes the servant to seek to be rich, and great, and honored in that world where his Lord was poor, and mean, and despised.

Aemon’s blind white eyes came open. “Egg?” he said, as the rain streamed down his cheeks. “Egg, I dreamed that I was old.

But courage without conduct is the virtue of a robber, or a tyrant.

Be sure to live up to your reputation for honesty and goodness, because many souls who believe you to be honest and good have placed themselves in your hands.

Too nice, and yet too true!