"Your age? Oh, you can't be over — no, no, can't say anything, can I, with a face like mine," he smirks a little. "Whatever your age, you're never too old or too young for anything at all. You only need the spark to want it."

He'll always believe that, of course.

"I'd take you traveling, if I could. Whatever happens here, and when I find my ship — well, we could go anywhere at all."

He does mean that very literally, his ship being both a time and space machine.