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.

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

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.

People always kill Caesar. Don't trust anyone.

Those who write ill, and they who ne'er durst write, Turn critics out of mere revenge and spite.

The young are permanently in a state resembling intoxication.

Most universities are no longer temples of knowledge, but of power, and true moderns worship there.

I suspect it may be like the difference between a drinker and an alcoholic; the one merely reads books, the other needs books to make it through the day.

It is the anonymous "they," the enigmatic "they" who are in charge. Who is "they"? I don't know. Nobody knows. Not even "they" themselves.

Love is not a higher quality than truth.

With an ocean between you and your European friends, you have to keep them in your heart.

People care about my personal life. But really I'm dorky! I drink beer and go to football games. And ya know, sit in my house in a t-shirt on the weekends and play with my dog!