And everybody has the motivation to be that killer.

I think I have a pattern of nice and lovely and then dark and twisted.

You know, I'm very particular about my sheets. They have to be one hundred percent cotton, with a high thread count. Only cotton. No flannel.

Tone is everything in TV.

I had been accepted to film school, but my parents couldn't afford it, and yet they made too much money for me to get a scholarship.

I love crispy, cool sheets.

Well, I'm from Indiana. So to me when I was a little kid growing up, Cincinnati was the glamorous New York of it all.

I started off as a journalist when I was young and I did not get paid unless I wrote three stories a day.

Originally, 'Popular' was going to be a movie.

When I was growing up my favorite show was 'The Mary Tyler Moore Show', and I loved all the stuff that Norman Lear did.

Even though 'Glee' is sometimes a hard road, I am very excited about writing a multi-year arc.

The discovery of what is true and the practice of that which is good are the two most important aims of philosophy.

We grew up learning to cheer on the underdog because we see ourselves in them.

While Democrats fussed with the details of health care reforms, conservatives spent months telling the nation that the real issue is freedom, that what's on the line is American liberty itself.

The heavens call to you, and circle about you, displaying to you their eternal splendors, and your eye gazes only to earth.

It is wicked to withdraw from being useful to the needy, and cowardly to give way to the worthless.

No man is ever as anti-feminist as a really feminine woman.

Life is like a mountain: after climbing up one side and sliding down the other, put up the sled.

I do dumb stuff, like playing my favorite dumb Barry White song and lip-synching into the mirror so it looks like his voice is coming out of my mouth.

I really wanted to be an opera soprano.

What is guilt? It is moral self-reproach-I did wrong when it was possible to have done otherwise.