“Yuri Polyakov’s aphorisms are absolutely not characterized by didacticism, moral teaching and moralizing. They are rather of a general philosophical nature with a clear inclination towards irony, humor, satire, and somewhere, maybe even sarcasm and the grotesque. But what they are completely devoid of is mockery, vulgarity and obscenity. ...I wanted to write that Polyakov’s book of aphorisms is a universal quotation book for all occasions. Wrote. I looked at what was written and saw - “a universal reader for all occasions.” And I was amazed at the existentially subconscious capacity of the new word.” Nikolai Kazakov