If the Pilgrims had landed in Santa Monica Bay rather than Boston, we'd have six states out here!
Kevin StarrIn 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 with the goodness of the fruitful earth.
Kevin StarrI like narrative, and I ultimately am in love with the men and women I write about, most of them.
Kevin StarrI 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 big stories.
Kevin Starr