Fringe of Life

"The aphorisms of Yuri Polyakov are absolutely devoid of didacticism, moralizing, and sermonizing. They are rather of a general philosophical nature with a clear tendency towards irony, humor, satire, and perhaps even sarcasm and grotesque. But what they are completely devoid of is mockery, vulgarity, and indecency. …I wanted to write that Polyakov's book of aphorisms is a universal collection of quotes for all occasions. I wrote it. I looked at what I had written and saw – "a universal reader for all occasions". And I was struck by the existential-subconscious capacity of the new word". Nikolai Kazakov