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.

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

The seas need their own Kyoto Protocol.

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.

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.

She felt the depth of her losses before they were realized, and she wondered, Is there still hope? Did she even dare hold on to such a tenuous thing as hope?

And the turtles, of course...all the turtles are free, as turtles and, maybe, all creatures should be.

If you're an old pro, you know how well you're doing when you're doing it, and your inner government spanks you if you're not doing well.

Your kiss is bitter with cocaine.

If you get an opportunity to work with David Simon, anybody with good taste would.

I meet people overseas that know five languages - that the only language I'm comfortable in is English.

The average vice-president is a form of executive fungus that attaches itself to a desk. On a boat this growth would be called a barnacle.

I may have taken someone through the wringer psychologically, but I've never been sinister.

If Chelsea are naive and pure then I'm Little Red Riding Hood.

It's a great day. Now, go make it that way.