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

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.

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

Love me or hate me, i swear it won't make or break me.

Everything looks uglier close up.

Great spenders are bad lenders.

Between trying to impeach Bill Clinton, Florida 2000, and the recall in California, I'm beginning to think that Republicans will do anything to win an election-except get the most votes.

The greatest and most important problems of life cannot be solved. They can only be outgrown.

What people can dream, people can do.

Novelists may be able to seek advice from readers and editors, but in the end, it is up to them to get the book right.

I think a lot of studios today are run by women, and we are entering a time when a lot of women have evolved in Second City and Upright Citizens Brigade and wanted to become writers and comedians.

The problem most nonprofits have is that they are run by romantics who are great to hang out with, but they have no clue.

Those whom fortune has never favored are more joyful than those whom she has deserted.