Pietro Aretino

If you want to annoy your neighbors, tell the truth about them.

I keep my friends as misers do their treasure, because, of all the things granted us by wisdom, none is greater or better than friendship.

Why should the eyes be denied what delights them most?

'Russian Ark,' I adore - I almost cried at the end of that film, it's so beautiful.

I hate the bad rap that people give my parents. Because they are just parents, really, at the end of the day trying to stand up for their daughter and themselves.

A myth is a lie that conceals or reveals a truth. But if it reveals even a strand of history or truth, that's what gets my adrenaline going.