"They say God laughs when you make plans, that's why I make appointments and sometimes reschedule."

“The older you get the more capable you get at managing life.”

“How do you get out of a belief system? First you have to destruct the belief system. Traditionally, the teacher is supposed to remove your ignorance. But when you remove ignorance, you start with removing what is causing the ignorance, which is your belief system. So the teacher's job indeed is to first deconstruct your belief system. And then to give you inspiration so you'll go out to create a path to discover what is spirit, what is beauty, what is love, because these things nobody can teach you. So teaching really should be a demolition job.”

“Nothing on earth can resist an absolutely non-resistant person.”

“You think you got something big to say? Something momentous? Or is it what you had to memorize in order to escape the men with lightning in their eyes?”

Source : John Yau (2002). “Borrowed Love Poems”, p.31, Penguin

“I would kill to do more work with Orla Brady, I think she's that gifted.”

Source : Interview with Todd VanDerWerff, www.avclub.com. May 6, 2011.

“I was most confusedly in love. ... Even though I resolved not to think of him, his face would keep appearing between me and a book I tried to read, or his voice would suddenly sound instead of the words I tried to write on a page. ... I found love annoying and uncomfortable, like fetters, until I got used to it.”

“I have no political aspirations. Thats it.”

“I'm not able to tell you what the best song is yet, because there's more to come. I feel that in me. I can still feel the burning energy and the desire to create and create and create.”