A biography for Peter Benchleyhasn’t been written yet.
“If you're young and wild, you tend to believe your clippings. One day you're Hemingway. The next day you're nothing.”
“I'm a babe in the woods when it comes to the Internet.”
“Without sharks, you take away the apex predator of the ocean, and you destroy the entire food chain.”
“I guess I'm a hopeful optimist, because to be a pessimist is to be suicidal.”
“Because the Asian market is so omnivorous, it affects all the shark populations up and down the Central and South American coast, and to a certain extent the East Coast of the United States as well.”
“We should be afraid of sharks half as much as sharks should be afraid of us.”
“The past always seems better when you look back on it than it did at the time. And the present never looks as good as it will in the future. It's depressing if you spend too much time reliving old joys. You think you'll never have anything as good again.”
“God isn't going to scribble across the sky. "The shark is gone.”
“I hope that 'Jaws' will have brought sharks into the public interest at a time when we desperately need to reevaluate our care for the environment.”
“We provoke a shark every time we enter the water where sharks happen to be, for we forget: The ocean is not our territory - it's theirs.”
“Sharks don't target human beings, and they certainly don't hold grudges.”
“Any weapon's only as good as the man using it, and a good man can make a good weapon out of most anything.”
“If we choose to walk into a forest where a tiger lives, we are taking a chance. If we swim in a river where crocodiles live, we are taking a chance. If we visit the desert or climb a mountain or enter a swamp where snakes have managed to survive, we are taking a chance.”
“I don't believe in blaming inanimate objects for anything.”
“Twenty-five years ago nobody knew much about white sharks.”
“Without the oceans there would be no life on Earth.”
“I didn't invent the fear of sharks; it's as old as mankind, and that - to take that responsibility would mean that Mario Puzo should take the blame for the Mafia.”
“I dive as much as I can.”
“It's hard to care deeply for something that might turn on you and eat you.”
“The past always seems better when you look back on it than it did at the time. And the present never looks as good as it will in the future.”