"My lifelong ambition has been to unite the utmost seriousness of question with the utmost lightness of form."
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"The combination of a frivolous form and a serious subject immediately unmasks the truth about our dramas."
"I am the planet's most affectionate life-form, something like the cross between a golden retriever and a barnacle."
"Simplicity of expression rather than complexity of form."
"Thought and beauty, like a hurricane or waves, should not know conventional, delimited forms."
"All human happiness and misery take the form of action."
"Send Love in Some Form to those you Believe have Wronged you, & Notice How Much Better you Feel"
"Fear of life in one form or another is the great thing to exorcise."
"I pause to record that I feel in extraordinary form. Delirium perhaps."
"Purify your eyes, and see the pure world. Your life will fill with radiant forms."
"Something that you feel will find its own form."
"Writing [is] a form of prayer."
"Never to talk about oneself is a very refined form of hypocrisy."
"Remembrance is a form of meeting."
"Film has a tendency to be limiting in some way and it shouldn't be. It's a form that can be explored and changed."
"For a long time I limited myself to one colour - as a form of discipline."
"Never neglect what you can do for yourself in the form of another."
"We have to reinvest, I think, in the idea of articulacy as a form of personal human freedom and power."
"Emotion, which is suffering, ceases to be suffering as soon as we form a clear and precise picture of it."
"Evangelism, in its purist form, is an overflow of worship."