I don't believe in blaming inanimate objects for anything.

He would have lied to himself as facilely as an alcoholic lies to himself to justify the 10 a.m. tumbler of vodka : it may be early here, but in Baghdad it's almost evening.

Writing is sweat and drudgery most of the time. And you have to love it in order to endure the solitude and the discipline.

Since writing JAWS, I've been lucky enough to do close to forty television shows about wildlife in the oceans, and yes, I have been attacked by sea creatures once in a while.

If man doesn't learn to treat the oceans and the rain forest with respect, man will become extinct.

Oceanography is a terrific career because gradually we seem to be coming around to realize that we had better become as acquainted with the seventy percent of our planet that is covered by water as we are with the dark side of the moon.

The great fish moved silently through the night water.