John Yau famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

I am officially Jewish, but Iâ€™m Jewish in the same way the Olive Garden is an Italian restaurant.
The only way to write is well and how you do it is your own damn business.
You just can't let anything or anyone get in the way of who you are.
Just as modern motorways have no room for ox-carts or wandering pedestrians, so modern society has little place for lives and ways that are too eccentric.
The serious revolutionary, like the serious artist, can't afford to lead a sentimental or self-deceiving life.
Maxwell is serious, dedicated, awkward, forgetful, pompous to a certain degree, sentimental.
My dear fellow," he continued more soberly, "If you have managed to complicate things by forming a sentimental attachment in less than a week, then I doubt there is anything I can do for you. You, sir, are a romantic, and I suspect your condition is incurable.
Jealousy is a useless, time-wasting emotion that's eating me alive.
...mastery of the emotions is fundamental to a virtuous life.
Art is the concrete representation of our most subtle feelings.

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