Tilapia have often been represented as the aquatic chicken, and it's perfectly justified.

We transform the world, but we don't remember it. We adjust our baseline to the new level, and we don't recall what was there.

Eating a tuna roll at a sushi restaurant should be considered no more environmentally benign than driving a Hummer or harpooning a manatee.

I personally like the idea of shellfish aquaculture. These are animals that stay quiet, they stay where you put them, and they clean up the water.

If we don't manage this resource, we will be left with a diet of jellyfish and plankton stew.

An animal that is very abundant, before it gets extinct, it becomes rare. So you don't lose abundant animals. You always lose rare animals. Therefore, they're not perceived as a big loss.

The crisis of the fisheries is similar to our economy. This is not one fishery failing, but the whole system.

People don't know the past, even though we live in literate societies, because they don't trust the sources of the past.

We suggest that in the next decades fisheries management will have to emphasize the rebuilding of fish populations embedded within functional food webs, within large 'no-take' marine protected areas.

If you think of having a family as being loved as a child, cared for - I did not experience that.

How do you get so empty? he wondered. Who takes it out of you?

It's difficult for me to understand how it was possible to live under the Bush regime for eight years and then just roll over and do other things.

If troubles were put up to market, I'd sooner buy old than new. It's something to have seen the worst.

During the past few years I have led a sometimes hard battle for German foreign policy.

The irreversibility of time is the mechanism that brings order out of chaos.

You have to be very nimble and very open minded. Your success is going to be very dependent on how your adapt.

A cat is better than you are, more honest, more graceful, smarter for her size, better coordinated, and infinitely more beautiful.

Manhattan is so tailored. It's driven by appealing to the very wealthy and tourists.

We lose our hair, our teeth! Our bloom, our ideals.

There is but one temple in this Universe: The Body. We speak to God whenever we lay our hands upon it.