“The thing I like best about the Old Man is that he’s willing to talk about what he knows, and he never talks down to a kid, which is me, who wants to know things. When you are as old as the Old Man, you know a lot of things that you forgot you ever knew, because they’ve been a part of you so long. You forget that a young’ un hasn’t had as a hard a start in the world as you did, and you don’t bother to spread the information around. You forget that other people might be curious about what you already knew and forgot.”
—Robert Ruark, “The Old Man and the Boy”
