“I learned a long time ago to take this kind of advice with a large grain of salt. I’d been warned by Frenchmen to avoid Italy like the plague, by northerners not to ride through the Deep South, by mature adults to stay off motorcycles, by country folk not to walk around New York City, by all kinds of people not to fly airplanes, and by clergymen to stay away from girls in high school. I eventually learned that these advisors had two things in common: first, they had almost no experience with the thing they mistrusted; and second, they were always dead wrong.”