You're gonna need a bigger boat.

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.

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

Twenty-five years ago nobody knew much about white sharks.

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

The ocean is the only alien and potentially hostile environment on the planet into which we tend to venture without thinking about the animals that live there, how they behave, how they support themselves, and how they perceive us. I know of no one who would set off into the jungles of Malaysia armed only with a bathing suit, a tube of suntan cream, and a book, and yet that's precisely how we approach the oceans.

I know now that the mythic monster I created was largely a fiction.