Nicholas Schutle

“Is a gesture of charity genuine or is it a kind of deep moral tax write-off?”
― Padgett Powell, The Interrogative Mood

“Do you appreciate that an oyster has, among its other organs, a heart?”
― Padgett Powell, The Interrogative Mood

“If you could have a famous writer, dead or alive, write an obituary for you and really puff you up to have been something you weren’t, perhaps, or otherwise take liberties with your memory, what writer would you choose?”
― Padgett Powell, The Interrogative Mood

“If the observation were made to you that "Strangers become intimate, and as intimacy grows they lower their guards and less mind their manners until errors are made, which decreases intimacy until estrangement exceeds that which existed before the strangers ever met," would you be inclined to agree?”
― Padgett Powell, The Interrogative Mood