My books are not about different components that fit together like pieces in a jigsaw puzzle, it's about creating the space around the components, wh….

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 nov….

I'm a centrist. There is a lot going on socially that I don't like, but I feel that in a democracy you work from the center, not because I like the c….

I think not in two or three dimensional terms but in five dimensional terms when I consider a novel. There's height, width, and depth, there's the ti….

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

You want sanity, democracy, community, an intact Earth? We can't get there, obeying Constitutional theory and law crafted by slave masters, imperiali….

I think that life is incredibly violent and that individual people are incredibly violent on one level or another. I don't try to change life to suit….

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

I write about life as it exists within houses and on the streets. And there's nothing, hopefully, in any of my characterizations or in any of my plot….

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 bo….

I have a strong spiritual commitment, and I try to express that in my work. Salvation cannot be worked out in human terms. The point of my writing is….

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

The problem with American democracy is the American corporation, which is a slave holder construct, pure and simple. It's totally invasive, and peopl….

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

I've been in the art world for many years. But the sad fact is that most writers are visually prepubescent. Generally speaking, the literary world is….

I think of myself as a jazz player, and my music as a natural extension of the jazz tradition. What I'm doing is completely free improvisation ('comp….

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,….