Writing a novel is not merely going on a shopping expedition across the border to an unreal land: it is hours and years spent in the factories the streets the cathedrals of the imagination.

On 'Into The Wild' I spent months risking my life and on 'Speed Racer' I spent 60 days acting in front of a green screen. No danger to my physical self but I sure had to use my imagination.

The contrasts between what is spent today to educate a child in the poorest New York City neighborhoods where teacher salaries are often even lower than the city averages and spending levels in the wealthiest suburban areas are daunting challenges to any hope New Yorkers might retain that even semblances of fairness still prevail.

All my day is spent dealing with other people. When I come home I like it to be empty. The presence of others in my house kind of annoys me. I love coming home and shutting the doors. I feel brain dead. I'm relatively available but not to live with.

My free time at home is usually spent emailing listening to music reading and talking on the phone. I wish I was on the phone less but I have been fortunate to stay in touch with so many incredible friends.

I'm just like so many women - I was frustrated I had these white pants that I had spent a lot of money on and you get home and you think 'What am I really supposed to wear under this?' So it was a frustrated consumer moment.

I had known Cole Porter in Hollywood and New York spent many a warm hour at his home and met the talented and original people who were drawn to him.

I've spent lots of time in London I studied in London I like London. It's just not my home.

I miss England. I miss the weather. I've spent moss of the last 25 years on tour. I'm ready to come home.

I came home every Friday afternoon riding the six miles on the back of a big mule. I spent Saturday and Sunday washing and ironing and cooking for the children and went back to my country school on Sunday afternoon.

My mother whom I love dearly has continually revised my life story within the context of a complicated family history that includes more than the usual share of divorce step-children dysfunction and obfuscation. I've spent most of my adult life attempting to deconstruct that history and separate fact from fiction.

A day spent praising the earth and lamenting man's pollutionist history makes you feel like a superior sensitive soul.

Even in high school I was very interested in history - why people do the things they do. As a kid I spent a lot of time trying to relate the past to the present.

90 percent of my time is spent on 10 percent of the world.

But the dollars spent on economic incentives and new investment strategies are wasted unless we seriously address the two most important economic issues in Kansas: education and health care.

Well my view is that the insurance companies have done awfully well and spent a lot of money on a lot of things that don't have anything to do with health care.

No period of my life has been one of such unmixed happiness as the four years which have been spent within college walls.

We all have a hungry heart and one of the things we hunger for is happiness. So as much as I possibly could I stayed where I was happy. I spent a great deal of time in my younger years just writing and reading walking around the woods in Ohio where I grew up.

If you have not taken the time to define what happiness means to you what have your spent your whole life pursuing?

Yeah I spent about 20 years in a dorm room. It took me a while to graduate.

We need more transparency and accountability in government so that people know how their money is being spent. That means putting budgets online putting legislation online.

We need transparency in government spending. We need to put each government expenditure online so every Floridian can see where their tax money is being spent.

I spent my whole life in the private sector 25 years in the private sector. I understand that when government takes more money out of the hands of people it makes it more difficult for them to buy things. If they can't buy things the economy doesn't grow. If the economy doesn't grow we don't put Americans to work.

A year spent in artificial intelligence is enough to make one believe in God.