First, because it's a condemned nuisance and ought to be closed.

Second, because I make it a point to get what I go after.

I can't afford not to.

It is doing that very thing that has put me where I am." There was nothing to be said in answer to a statement like that.

I did not try to answer it.
"Where you're holding down a job like mine," he continued, crossing his knees and looking out across the bay, "you have to get what you go after.