"I suppose I should make a point of including the fact that the last time I checked, it was 1959. And now I'm here."

That certainly clears up the doubt about him being impossibly old -- and probably explains some of his attitudes. He does have a certain way of holding himself that people might find old-fashioned in the City, though he, of course, finds everyone else just as puzzling.

"Yes, I decided to do better. I have done better. My city is governed by the tenets of free will and the free market."