Without sharks, you take away the apex predator of the ocean, and you destroy the entire food chain

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

I believe implicitly that every young man in the world is fascinated with either sharks or dinosaurs.

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.

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

You're gonna need a bigger boat.

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 know now that the mythic monster I created was largely a fiction.

Sharks don't target human beings, and they certainly don't hold grudges.

Reputations rise and fall almost as regularly as the tides.

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

Modernism has been consumed and remains partially digested in the belly of capital, awaiting occasional bouts of flatulence.

He stared at her a moment longer, then laughed softly. “I wouldn’t love you if you were any weaker, ” he said, and let go of her.

To injure another person through atonement is one of the most subtle devices of the neurotic, as when, for example, he indulges in self-accusations.

History is either a moral argument with lessons for the here-and-now, or it is merely an accumulation of pointless facts.

The one way to discover about aliens is to tune your radio telescope and listen to the signals.

To know that everything we say and do to this new little human being may have a profound effect on him or her is a daunting obligation.

Lonely children often have imaginary playmates but I was never lonely; rather, I was solitary, and wanted no company at all other than books and movies, and my own imagination.

Our bells are worn threadbare with ringing for victories

So I observe life a little bit, rather than participating in it.

By exhaustively examining one's own mind,one may understand his nature.One who understands his own nature understands Heaven.