"I truly feel absolutely at home on the stage. It's very comfortable to me. It's very much my workplace, very much my workplace. I feel that an audience and I are happy with one another. I'm grateful for that."

“In a complex and troubling world, who wouldn't want to simplify? Everybody does. Everybody wants to simplify and put up a picket fence.”

Source : "Interview: Gary Ross breathes his life into 'Pleasantville'". www.cnn.com. October 12, 1998.

“I really love big scarves. I have a whole bunch.”

“I Believe in Miracles and the Power of the Individual to make a positive difference in the world.”

Source : Warren Brown (2010). “Snow Storm Marketing Course”, p.20, Lulu.com

“If you live your life burning for the highest possibility, in that burning itself, there is liberation.”

“The founders of the Republic dealt with things as they were presented to them, in a spirit of self sacrificing Patriotism and as time has proved, with a comprehensive wisdom which it will always be safe for us to consult”

Source : Franklin Pierce (1968). “Franklin Pierce, 1804-1869: chronology, documents, bibliographical aids”

“Psychopaths have a grandiose self-structure which demands a scornful and detached devaluation of others, in order to ward off their envy toward the good perceived in other people. He will choose you, disarm you with his words, and control you with his presence. He will delight you with his wit and his plans. He will show you a good time but you will always get the bill. He will smile and deceive you, and he will scare you with his eyes. And when he is through with you, and he will be through with you, he will desert you and take with him your innocence and your pride.”

“To George Gershwin, on refusinghim as a pupil: You would only lose the spontaneous quality of your melody, and end by writing bad Ravel.”

“I may not know much but I can count.”