“Basically, it's hard for me to assess myself, a hardship not only prom...” — Joseph Brodsky Quote

“Basically, it's hard for me to assess myself, a hardship not only prompted by the immodesty of the enterprise, but because one is not capable of assessing himself, let alone his work. However, if I were to summarize, my main interest is the nature of time. That's what interests me most of all. What time can do to a man.”

“For darkness restores what light cannot repair.”

“Life—the way it really is—is a battle not between good and bad, but between bad and worse”