“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 existential-subconscious capacity of the new word.” Nikolai Kazakov