Let me enjoy the earth no less
Because the all-enacting Might
That fashioned forth its loveliness
Had other aims than my delight. – Thomas Hardy
Persons with weight of character carry, like planets, their atmospheres along with them in their orbits. – Thomas Hardy
If Galileo had said in verse that the world moved, the inquisition might have let him alone. – Thomas Hardy
I grew up in the 80s where theres a lot of these kind of post-apocalyptic, post-comet, post-whatever it was, so that always captured my imagination a lot as a little kid, that idea of getting access to secret places and being able to roam around where youre not supposed to. – Gillian Flynn