Like SEVERAL hundred thousand fellow Karelians, we became REFUGEES in our own COUNTRY as great power politics CAUSED the borders of Finland to be redrawn and left my home TOWN as part of the Soviet Union.

All I did was ask for rights. I didn't ATTACK ANYONE. I didn't harass anyone. I didn't oppose the system or the COUNTRY or the authority. All I said is, 'Why can't I drive?'

In the modern-day world, where time is premium and BATTLE for subsistence is unimaginably tough, the hapless COMMON MAN simply gives in and PAYS the bribe just to get on with life.

The idea of infection began to be taken FAR more SERIOUSLY than it EVER had before. Hospitals transformed themselves in response to the NEW plague - sometimes for the better, but often for the WORSE, as when, in fear, they cast their ulcerated patients out into the streets.

Acting is all about BIG HAIR and FUNNY props... All the great actors KNEW it. Olivier knew it, Brando knew it.

There's NOTHING glorious about WAR. There's nothing glorious about holding your FRIENDS in your arms and watching them DIE. There's nothing glorious about having to leave your home for 6 to 8 months while your family's back here and you're away.

After SEPTEMBER 11th, nations from across the GLOBE offered their generous assistance to the people of New YORK. And whenever our friends AROUND the world NEED our assistance, New York is there.

There is a DIVINE MOMENT in our LIVES when we all BECOME one. It's called procreation, and it is reborn, continually and FOREVER.