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I guess I'm a hopeful optimist, because to be a pessimist is to be suicidal.

I'm a babe in the woods when it comes to the Internet.

Peter Benchley

I guess I'm a hopeful optimist, because to be a pessimist is to be suicidal.

Peter Benchley

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.

Peter Benchley

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

Peter Benchley

I believe implicitly that every young man in the world is fascinated with either sharks or dinosaurs.

Peter Benchley

In a deeply tribal sense, we love our monsters, and I think that is the key to it right there. It is monsters; it is learning about them: it is both thrill and safety. You can think of them without being desperately afraid because they are not going to come into your living room and eat you. That is 'Jaws.'

Peter Benchley

Reputations rise and fall almost as regularly as the tides.

Peter Benchley

Without the oceans there would be no life on Earth.

Peter Benchley

There was a minor burst of macho nuttiness after 'Jaws' came out, in which people would go off in shark tournaments and come back holding the bloody heads of these animals and say, 'Look what I did.' But they've been doing that for hundreds of thousands of years anyway.

Peter Benchley

I read very widely, both non-fiction and fiction, so I don't think there's a single writer who influences me.

Peter Benchley

I dive as much as I can.

Peter Benchley

If man doesn't learn to treat the oceans and the rain forest with respect, man will become extinct.

Peter Benchley

I don't believe in blaming inanimate objects for anything.

Peter Benchley

If you take away the predators in the prairies and the national parks, you suddenly have an explosion of elk, and then you have a lack of the food source for the elk, so they strip all the ground bare and that takes away the cover, on and on and on and on. The whole food chain is disrupted.

Peter Benchley

Twenty-five years ago nobody knew much about white sharks.

Peter Benchley

We are already perilously close to killing off the top of the oceanic food chain - with catastrophic consequences that we can't begin to imagine. Let us not, in the heat of anger, reduce the already devastated population of great white sharks by one more member.

Peter Benchley

We do not just fear our predators, we are transfixed by them. We are prone to weave stories and fables and chat endlessly about them.

Peter Benchley

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.

Peter Benchley

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

Peter Benchley

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.

Peter Benchley

Almost any shark, three or four feet long, could kill a human being if it chose to do it. It could make you bleed to death. But they don't.

Peter Benchley