Sharks have everything a scientist dreams of. They're beautiful―God, how beautiful they are! They're like an impossibly perfect piece of machinery. They're as graceful as any bird. They're as mysterious as any animal on earth. No one knows for sure how long they live or what impulses―except for hunger―they respond to. There are more than two hundred and fifty species of shark, and everyone is different from every other one.

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

I've never been hurt by a sea creature, except for jellyfish and sea urchins.

You're gonna need a bigger boat.

The great fish moved silently through the night water.

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.

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