I love crispy, cool sheets.

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 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.

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.

Listen to your mind

There is no pleasure in Jalebi (dessert)

Until the end of time, living happily will remain your sole responsibility on earth.

Total self acceptance is empowering. It means allowing others to see you as they choose, without being offended.

In front of you I commit myself to serve my country with devotion.

My childhood was a period of waiting for the moment when I could send everyone and everything connected with it to hell.

We shall never be clothed with the righteousness of Christ except we first know assuredly that we have no righteousness of our own.

The sage regards things as difficult, and thereby avoids difficulty.

Carnal knowledge is as forgettable as the other kinds.

If you see a lonely tree in the middle of nowhere, plant a tree next to it!