There are worse crimes than burning books. One of them is not reading them. - Joseph Brodsky
Life—the way it really is—is a battle not between good and bad, but between bad and worse - Joseph Brodsky
[T]he accumulation of things not spelled out, not properly articulated, may result in neurosis. - Joseph Brodsky
Man is what he reads. - Joseph Brodsky
For darkness restores what light cannot repair. - Joseph Brodsky