While he has posted the occasional statement online, his physical location has been a closely guarded secret.
But, apart from the occasional statement or interview, one or two pics, and his alleged name William Bevan there's not all that much to go by.
An occasional statement here and there about how "Darfur is in a crisis" is not going to get them out of this new stage of genocide with 1,000,000 lives in imminent danger.
There's no sign of a father and as in Red Road there's no formal exposition: we are left to make inferences about the characters from their actions and occasional statements.
The critics have also questioned his occasional statements that he was in Cambodia over Christmas 1968, which he made to argue that Vietnam had been in part a secret war.
It is a tremendous mess and, plainly, it is easier for Lerner to avoid awkward questions about his culpability when the other option is to keep his distance, holed away in the Hamptons, and communicate in occasional statements via the club's website.
His successor, an uncharismatic and reclusive Egyptian surgeon called Ayman Zawahiri, is still at large, issuing occasional statements online but criticised by jihadists for being increasingly irrelevant to today's fast-moving events.
Occasional statements that do nothing to repudiate Donald Trump's words and actions are spineless.
Despite their occasional statements to the contrary, it simply isn't in U2's genes to make throwaway music.
Abhisit Vejjajiva, the leader of the main pro-establishment Democrat Party, continues to give the occasional bland statement.
He might also have sharpened the dialogue, which right now has a lot of dealing with devils and haunting you for the rest of your life and precious things being taken away, as well as the occasional thesis statement like "The sooner you get rid of this pit bull pride of yours, the sooner you'll be teachable".
