If the Pilgrims had landed in Santa Monica Bay rather than Boston, we'd have six states out here!
Kevin StarrI 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 was supposed to be terminally racist. Yearbooks are genres; they're also folk art, folk documentation.
Kevin StarrIn our public life, California is on the verge of being a failed state, and no state has failed in the history of this country.
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