[focusing on the important part] Aren't fortune cookies Chinese?

[gestures vaguely] No, you know. That thing. Hope in one hand, shit in the other, see which fills up first.

Nah, it's smarter to expect the worst. Then you're ready, and anything else is a nice surprise.

[A shadow passes over his face.] Course, that's only when the worst is something you can see coming.

[He looks up, some of the old asshole coming back into his expression] What would your dream be, anyway, setting fire to some shit in a parking lot?