"Mr. Rogers had an emotional awareness that was a superpower"
Tom Junod profiled Mr. Rogers for a magazine. He watched the superpower up close. It changed how he saw good and evil.
"He was so remarkably adept at knowing what people needed at a certain time when he was interacting with them and giving them just that."
"With every freaking human being he met, somehow he had a sense of what that person needed from him. I saw it with little kids. I saw it with homeless people on the street. I've seen it. I saw it with myself."
"Before I met Fred, I was writing about human evil almost exclusively. The lesson that I learned from Fred is that goodness is just as much a mystery as evil is. We have no more reason to be good than we have to be evil."