The Great Fish Moved Silently Through The

He Would Have Lied To Himself As Facilely As An Alcoholic Lies To Himself To Justify The 10 A.m. Tumbler Of Vodka : It May Be Early Here, But In Baghdad It's Almost Evening.

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.

Sharks Have Everything A Scientist Dreams Of. They're Beautiful―god, How Beautiful They Are! They're Like An Impossibly Perfect Piece Of Machinery. They're As Graceful As Any Bird. They're As Mysterious As Any Animal On Earth. No One Knows For Sure How Long They Live Or What Impulses―except For Hunger―they Respond To. There Are More Than Two Hundred And Fifty Species Of Shark, And Everyone Is Different From Every Other One.

I Don't Believe In Blaming Inanimate Objects For Anything.

Since Writing Jaws, I've Been Lucky Enough To Do Close To Forty Television Shows About Wildlife In The Oceans, And Yes, I Have Been Attacked By Sea Creatures Once In A While.