“You've got nothing to worry about. The righteous do not always right, but their souls remain pure. -Lassiter the Angel”

Source: The Elephant Vanishes

"Me and You".
Volume Two (2010)

Flowers for Algernon (1966)
Context: The answer can't be found in books — or be solved by bringing it to other people. Not unless you want to remain a child all your life. You've got to find the answer inside you — feel the right thing to do.

Ethics Into Action: Henry Spira and The Animal Rights Movement by Peter Singer (1998).

As quoted in The Bright Side of Billy Wilder, Primarily (1970) by Tom Wood, p. 20

Source: Death Bringer

On adolescence
1990s, Moab is My Washpot (autobiography, 1997)
Context: Didn't Woody Allen say that all literature was a footnote to Faust? Perhaps all adolescence is a dialogue between Faust and Christ. We tremble on the brink of selling that part of ourselves that is real, unique, angry, defiant and whole for the rewards of attainment, achievement, success and the golden prizes of integration and acceptance; but we also in our great creating imagination, rehearse the sacrifice we will make: the pain and terror we will take from others' shoulders; our penetration into the lives and souls of our fellows; our submission to willingness to be rejected and despised for the sake of truth and love and, in the wilderness, our angry rebuttals of the hypocrisy, deception and compromise of a world which we see to be so false. There is nothing so self-righteous nor so right as an adolescent imagination.