Fascinations breeds preparedness, and preparedness, survival.

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

Look, Chief, you can't go off half-cocked looking for vengeance against a fish. That shark isn't evil. It's not a murderer. It's just obeying its own instincts. Trying to get retribution against a fish is crazy.

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.

I read very widely, both non-fiction and fiction, so I don't think there's a single writer who influences me.

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.

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