Not everything is black and white. In fact, almost nothing is.

Cept for Ben, who I can’t describe much further without seeming soft and stupid and like a boy, so I won’t, just to say that I never knew my pa, but if you woke up one day and had a choice of picking one from a selecshun, if someone said, here, then, boy, pick who you want, then Ben wouldn’t be the worst choice you could make that morning.

"So who are you then, Todd Hewitt?" he says. "What makes you so special?"
Now that, I think, is a very good asking.