Poetry asks people to have values, form opinions, care about some other part of experience besides making money and being successful on the job.
“I'm curious about people. That's what I've always done since I've been a small boy. I'm curious about others.”
“I think we have some serious problems now, but, if you look back over the last thirty or forty years that my book deals with, I think we are in better shape now than we would have been if all of those cases had not come down.”