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" 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. "

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" When I was starting out in Hollywood, everything was such a battle. "

" I remember I always felt much more safe standing up on a chair and singing in front of my mother than I was in front of my father! "

" It's interesting when women direct. The work is better. They ask more people to participate. "

" I love Sarah Jessica Parker; I've worked with her. I think she's amazing... She's a great producer and has a great business acumen. "

" Part of being an artist is being able to write about the world you live in and the times that you've been a part of. "

" When I talk to young people, I always tell them the biggest lesson I learned was that you shouldn't care about the outcome. If it fails, it fails. Every failure will groom you for your next big reward. "

" Just because you have a baby on your hip - or one on the way or two at home - doesn't mean you can't go after your dreams. "

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

" I love 'Girls' on HBO because it's brave and cool. "

" It's a weird thing, my shows. I don't know how to describe it, but I feel because I go about the casting process so slowly that it does feel like an instant family. "

" I formed this thing called the Half Foundation, and what I tried to do is quantify hiring practices in Hollywood. Half the population is women, so half of the storytellers should be women. Fifty percent of all the directors in my company are women, and it will forever be that way. "

" I started off in this business in 1998, and I didn't fit in. There was no place for me, and I always felt like an oddball. Nobody really understood my work or what I wanted to do in my references. "

" I feel every day that everything I create - everything I do - I want it to be a risk. "

" What I'm interested in doing now is to go and give voices that are not being heard a platform and to sort of bring people into people's homes that you think you may hate or despise. "

" The Hollywood thing is - like, it feels like the biggest thing in the world, and yet it's the smallest town. "

" I'll ask the writers' room who they voted for Emmy awards, but I'll never ask who they voted for president. "

" At the end of the day, a divorce is a divorce, and a break-up is a break-up. They are essentially small matters of the heart. They are human stories. "

" All the big successes of my career have been ideas that, on paper, you think, 'Well nobody's going to go for this because that genre is so dead.' "

" One of the unique things about 'American Horror Story' is, it's very respectful to actors. Actors in many cases don't want to be tied down to a seven-year contract. So my deal with the cast is: you're free after every year: you can come back, or you cannot come back. "

" I think everyone wants for their children a world that's better than the one they came up in. "

" I find that women are much more comfortable showing their emotion and inviting you into their emotional landscape. "

" I was very much raised by my grandmother, who actually was Bette Davis - looked like her, acted like her, talked like her. Probably, it was just out of my love and affection for my grandmother that I was interested in Bette. "

" The greatest thing that you have when you're a showrunner is this opportunity to create worlds. "

" I was an altar boy, with a very strict father. And movies were always my escape. "

" The only way to get through the life I had was just to have a big head of steam and determination. "

" I had a very rocky, difficult, emotional childhood with my parents. "

" Joan Crawford and Bette Davis are larger than life. They just are. They sucked all the oxygen out of a room: they're icons; they loom large in our imaginations. But the truth of the matter is both women were diminutive. "

" 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. "

" People think I'm just sort of this P. T. Barnum, razzle-dazzle guy. They think I go out of my way to be outlandish and theatrical at the expense of having emotions. They don't get that there's another side to me, and I keep trying to show that other side. "