I know I ain't gone hungry since I got here. Ain't nobody stole my wages or done me dirty. People here have taught me how to use these phone things and them computers. Not that I like 'em much. If I'd jes' walked right outta Soledad into this without all that help? I reckon I might already be dead in a ditch somewhere, or wishin' I was.

[He's too practical to be able to play a good game of what if. Hasn't ever had enough to be able to afford it.]