Pablo Picasso, when asked about the first human steps on the moon, replied, “It means nothing to me. I have no opinion about it and I don’t care.” Everyone else he spoke to was more interested; the Dalai Lama called it an “epic making event,” sculptor Jacques Lipschitz said it was “a mutation of humanity,” and Charles Evers, the mayor of Fayette Mississippi, said “the billions of dollars being spent on the moon exploration program means that it will be even longer before America begins to keep her promises to the poor.” Poet Paul Goodman commented, “It’s good to waste money on such a moral and aesthetic venture; these are our Cathedrals, we ought to see to it that people live well, but a part of living well is blowing money on big excitement, curiosity, entertainment, and conversation.”