Character: Joseph Brodsky

Once Brodsky spoke in Boston - told me boguslawski. - After the speech I asked him whether he could remember the inscription on the book given to Vysotsky. "I remember it verbatim - said Brodsky. I wrote: "the Best poet of Russia, both inside and outside".

A free man is different from man enslaved by the fact that in the event of a disaster, failure, and unhappiness is never blaming circumstances, other people - he blames himself.

Do not depend on Time - that's freedom.

Darkness fixes that did not fix the light.

It makes no sense to seek to restore the sequence in my memory. The lack of continuity in these fragments - this is like a movie, right?

I have always believed that travel is the best time for memories, especially the travel by water, because water is the image of the time. I never forgot that you are a son of a photographer, and that my memory is only showing film.