Frank Waters

The whole westward expansion myth is seen as romantic. But it's a joke, a blot on American history.

There is no aspect of our experience not molded in some way by metaphor's almost imperceptible touch.

Boston is an oasis in the desert, a place where the larger proportion of people are loving, rational and happy.

If you compare NASA's annual budget to explore the heavens, that one year budget would fund NOAA's budget to explore the oceans for 1,600 years.