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… — Kevin Starr Copy Share Image
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
