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.

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.

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.

Whoever knows God, does not (any longer) say “God”.

The supernatural world was like an onion. You peel back the layers, only to find more layers, on and on, hopelessly trying to reach the mysterious core. Then you start crying.

When you are fitted in a racing car and you race to win, second or third place is not enough.

I live in the moment, and I reflect later.

When you get your powers, you learn a lot about yourself. My professors called me mad. It was time for me to stop punishing myself, and start punishing everybody else.

Only great and general battles can produce great results

In my day the schools taught two things, love of country and penmanship-now they don't teach either.

Of several remedies, the physician should choose the least sensational.

We have a tendency to always test people's love. 'I want to see how badly I have to behave before you'll leave me. Because I don't really think you want me anyhow.'

When you understand the fear then you can begin to move past it. So when I hear the people say it's innate, you can't learn it, I just want to hit them in the head.