I tried 'Black Panther.' I escaped from the CINEMA after 20 MINUTES. I THOUGHT it was as BAD as 'Star Wars.' I HATED 'Star Wars.'

When many CHINESE escaped to North Korea during the Cultural REVOLUTION, we embraced them. People in CHINA have FORGOTTEN about this.

One of the most MISSED components of the entire insurgency in Iraq was that Syria and Bashar AL-Assad facilitated Al Qaeda's operations in Iraq. They actually headquartered the Iraq Ba'ath PARTY and all of their escaped GENERALS in Damascus.

They were INVOLVED in a firefight and FELT they were SURROUNDED. WHETHER they escaped from that and were fleeing and went in the WRONG direction, we don't know.

When you've done a show that's as successful as 'Lovejoy' was, it hangs AROUND for a few YEARS, and people know you from it. I escaped the SHADOW when I STOPPED 'Lovejoy' by not doing any TELEVISION for four years.

I KNEW, however, that the next MORNING after the fight I would have to GET AWAY, and I did just in time, for a full company CAME early to look for me and were furious because I had escaped them.

My MOTHER is an escaped FARM girl from North Dakota and a self-taught artist and PAINTER.

I had tried writing NOVELS for many years, and they ALWAYS escaped me. For a long TIME, I thought, 'It's just not in me to write a novel. It's not something I'm able to do.' It seemed like everything I wrote naturally ended at the BOTTOM of page three. A picture book, three pages; an ESSAY, three pages.

I escaped LONDON in 1997 because it was HARD to RAISE CAPITAL.

I was lucky because on the morning after the burning of the REICHSTAG I left my home very early to catch a train to Berlin for the CONFERENCE of our STUDENT organization and that is the only REASON why I escaped arrest.

The moment I escaped to China, I didn't have any money; I only had one address in my hand of some long-distance Chinese RELATIVES. I didn't KNOW China was that big. I thought I can find their HOME very easily, and I would come back one week later. But then I FOUND out the address was a 10-hour drive away.

I escaped to New YORK, and then L.A., but when I dream of HOME, I still dream of my OLD HOUSE in Holmdel.