In the luxuriance of a bowl of grapes set out in ritual display, in a bottle of wine, the soil and sunshine of California reached millions for whom that distant place would henceforth be envisioned as a sun-graced land resplendent… — Kevin Starr Copy Share Image
I've always tried to write California history as American history. The paradox is that New England history is by definition national history, Mid-Atlantic history… — Kevin Starr Copy Share Image
I don't reverberate to victimhood, probably because of my own life. I refused to become a victim myself, so it's not one of my… — Kevin Starr Copy Share Image
“Wilde stepped off the train in Oakland wearing a Spanish sombrero, a velvet suit, a puce cravat, yellow gloves, and buckled shoes, and wended… — Kevin Starr Copy Share Image
I always thought the women of my age group got short shrift because the women's liberation movement came slightly after. You look at the yearbooks and you see the future homemakers of America - hurray for that - but you also see them in the engineers club. You see minority kids as student body presidents at a time when everyone… — Kevin Starr Copy Share
The Irish didn't read and write for a couple of thousand years, and I think we developed good memories and recall. We have a… — Kevin Starr Copy Share Image
I like narrative, and I ultimately am in love with the men and women I write about, most of them. — Kevin Starr Copy Share Image
If the Pilgrims had landed in Santa Monica Bay rather than Boston, we'd have six states out here! — Kevin Starr Copy Share Image
“And that question is, is San Francisco just a boutique city? A theme park? Or do creative forces still coalesce there?” — Kevin Starr Copy Share Image
I think California is playing a game of brinkmanship that's very dangerous. Why is it 50 or 60 years ago we had the capacity… — Kevin Starr Copy Share Image
I believe that's a form of dangerous stereotyping, to ascribe permanent victimhood to any group. Groups have suffered powerful injustice, and yet when you… — Kevin Starr Copy Share Image
It's highly competitive to be here. People don't come to California to drop out anymore. It's a very striving place. — Kevin Starr Copy Share Image
In our public life, California is on the verge of being a failed state, and no state has failed in the history of this… — Kevin Starr Copy Share Image
