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.

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.

The only difference between May and Day is the M and D! Be a good Managing Director of your life each day in May.

If a man gives you a harsh winter, give him back something unexpected: The warm spring!

I don't think the war in Afghanistan was ruthlessly enough waged.

When I’m rested, I’m at my best.

There is a big difference between storytelling and being alive. Those are the two things that I prefer in life - telling stories and being alive.

A man is accountable to no person for his doings.

Love's chemistry thrives best in equal heat.

A good disposition I far prefer to gold; for gold is the gift of fortune; goodness of disposition is the gift of nature. I prefer much rather to be called good than fortunate.

Obviously after such a long gap, one itches to get back to the game and score big runs.

I wish that all Americans would realize that American politics is world politics.