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

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.

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.

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

On the single strand of wire strung to bring our house electricity, grackles and starlings neatly punctuated an invisible sentence.

By the fall of 1918, it was clear that a nation's prosperity, even its very survival, depended on securing a safe, abundant supply of cheap oil.

Obsessed by a fairy tale, we spend our lives searching for a magic door and a lost kingdom of peace.

Los Angeles is seven suburbs in search of a city.

Unless you are actually a ninja, a guru, or a rock star, don't ever use any of those terms in your bio. Ever.

The mate for beauty should be a man and not a money chest.

I only said, 'I want to be left alone.'

We Finns represent a very transparent and open-minded way of reaching political decisions.

I'm a street fighter. I'm ready for any kind of mixed martial arts that comes at me.

It is harder to maintain the balance of freedom than it is to endure the weight of tyranny.