All of us understand the put-and-take of checking accounts, but few understand the careful accounts of deposits and withdrawals that nature keeps.
“I don’t think of myself as inaccessible at all. The language is high, and the sentences are long and convoluted, but they always come out right, and if you’re willing to follow me through the dashes and the parentheticals… I don’t think my work is inaccessible.”
Stanley Elkin