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 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.

And everybody has the motivation to be that killer.

Tone is everything in TV.

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.

Determine when you are most effective and energized, then plan your tasks within that time.

With God, a mountain is only a road waiting to happen.

Already she could feel the stunning weight of a lifetime of regret for letting him go, and she knew that it was enought to bury her alive.

When the rock is hard we get harder than the rock. When the job is tough we get tougher than the job.

When a man brings his wife flowers for no reason - there's a reason.

Learning the core curriculum cannot come through coercion. It must come through a recognition of the need to integrate with economic life.

These people get to the top because they have to, because inside them burns a dream too big, too ever present, too demanding to be denied.

I was very much provoked. Of course, I knew there are no fairies; but that needn't prevent my thinking there is.

Moderate aspirations lead to a contended life. I don't have to buy the airplane and I can't drive the tank!!

The greatest meliorator of the world is selfish, huckstering Trade.