poet
, playwright
and novelist.
Yeo is a retired lecturer of the National Institute of Education and Nanyang Technological University
. At present he is a teacher of Creative Writing at the Singapore Management University
. He received the Singapore
Public Service Medal in 1991 for services to drama.
He has published four poetry collections: "Coming Home Baby" (1971); "Napalm Does Not Work" (1977), "A Part of Three" (1989) and "Leaving Home, Mother" (1999) and has been included in several anthologies, including "Five Takes" (1974).
His venture into novel writing resulted in a sole book: "The Adventures of Holden Heng" (1986) about the sexual education of its anti-hero.
Yeo has written six plays: Are You There, Singapore? (1974), One Year Back Home (1980), Second Chance (1988), The Eye of History (1991), Changi (1996) and Your Bed is your Coffin.
A fool's mind is at the mercy of his tongue and a wise man's tongue is under the control of his mind. 
I never heard tell of any clever man that came of entirely stupid people.
Aristotle taught that the brain exists merely to cool the blood and is not involved in the process of thinking. This is true only of certain persons.
Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity.
"Folly is as great as the sea. It can compass anything."
A person is smart. People are dumb, panicky, dangerous animals and you know it.
There is no sin except stupidity.
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