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.

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.

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.

God chose to introduce Himself to us in the first verse of Genesis as a Creator. And yet so few Christians really understand the power of creativity to influence the culture.

I’m now ‘Doctor’ to the patients and I have to cover my ignorance by waving my arms and looking grave.

Jealousy is the dragon in paradise; the hell of heaven; and the most bitter of the emotions because associated with the sweetest.

It is not opium which makes me work but its absence, and in order for me to feel its absence it must from time to time be present.

Like most of my friends in school, I was a member of multiple circulating libraries; and all of us, to begin with, borrowed and read the same things.

The stone is a mirror which works poorly. Nothing in it but dimness. Your dimness or its dimness, who's to say? In the hush your heart sounds like a black cricket.

Don't, to gain general and useless attention, sacrifice the attention that you want

Leadership is the capacity to influence others through inspiration motivated by passion, generated by vision, produced by a conviction, ignited by a purpose.

He looked exactly like a rat. Like the human being version of a rat. Like the villain in a Don Bluth movie.

Even imperfection itself may have its ideal or perfect state.