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 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.

I love crispy, cool sheets.

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.

That is what madness is, isn't it? All the wheels fly off the bus and things don't make sense any more. Or rather, they do, but it's not a kind of sense anyone else can understand.

No man of science wants merely to know. He acquires knowledge to appease his passion for discovery. He does not discover in order to know, he knows in order to discover.

Every adventure requires a first step. Trite but true, even here.

Each string of a wind harp responds with a different note to the same breeze. What activity makes you personally resonate most strongly, most deeply?

It [concentration of wealth and power] has been a menace to . . . American democracy.

In the Ngong Forest I have also seen, on a narrow path through thick growth, in the middle of a very hot day, the Giant Forest Hog, a rare person to meet.

I wish I'd gotten sober at a younger age.

I think God runs the show. Completely. Life proves it every day: He runs the show.

Workers organized and fought for worker rights and food safety, Social Security and Medicare - they fought to change government. And they won.

It must be a hard life to be the child of a psychologist.