“Any dispute in matters of taste usually results in a standoff.” — Joseph Brodsky Quote

“Any dispute in matters of taste usually results in a standoff.”

“In order to live in a different country, you have to love something there. You have to love something there. You have to love either the spirit of the laws or the economic opportunities, or the - well, history of the country, the language perhaps, literature.”

“A writer is a tool of the language rather than the other way around.”

“If you're against war, you're against war regardless of what happens. It's a wrong method of trying to settle a dispute.”

“That's what the holidays are for - for one person to tell the stories and another to dispute them. Isn't that the Irish way?”

“The invasion of Iraq was, in ways that have since become hard to dispute, a terrible mistake.”