The past always seems better when you look back on it than it did at the time. And the present never looks as good as it will in the future.

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

No, the shark in an updated JAWS could not be the villain; it would have to be written as the victim, for, worldwide, sharks are much more the oppressed than the oppressors.

I'm a babe in the woods when it comes to the Internet.

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.

Without sharks, you take away the apex predator of the ocean, and you destroy the entire food chain

Just when you thought it was safe to go back in the water.