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

I guess I'm a hopeful optimist, because to be a pessimist is to be suicidal.

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

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

Fascinations breeds preparedness, and preparedness, survival.

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.

Without the oceans there would be no life on Earth.