The seas need their own Kyoto Protocol.

The ocean is like a checking account where everybody withdraws but nobody makes a deposit. This is what's happening because of overfishing.

When I was six, all I dreamt about was becoming a diver on Jacques Cousteau's boat, the famous Calypso.

Most of the reefs [around Christmas Island] are dead, most of the corals are dead, overgrown by algae, and most of the fish are smaller than the pencils we use to count them.

When I was a kid, Jacques Cousteau was my hero and the person who inspired me to become an underwater explorer. I have many other people who inspired me after him, but he is still my all-time hero.

What we have now - a world without [marine] reserves - is like a debit account where we withdraw all the time and we never make any deposit. Reserves are like savings accounts.

Then we got into a labyrinth, and, when we thought we were at the end, came out again at the beginning, having still to see as much as ever.

I don't think I would describe my sense of humor. Doesn't sound like the kind of thing I'd do.

Even when we know things, sometimes it takes words to make them concrete.

You give because you love and cannot help giving.

Creativity is the process of having original ideas that have value

I think to really be literate in nu shu you only need about 600 characters because it is phonetic. So you're able to then create many words out of one character.

Sometimes what you want you don't get until you don't want it anymore.

Die in obeying commands like a soldier, and go to Nirvana, but no cowardice.

I'm thought to be a tough writer, but I'm really a softie.

I'd prefer to be right than consistent.