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

There's nothing in the sea this fish would fear. Other fish run from bigger things. That's their instinct. But this fish doesn't run from anything. He doesn't fear.

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.

I dive as much as I can.

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

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.