"Generous and cheap aren't mutually exclusive. You're generous with your time and emotions and cheap with your money and sometimes your words. It's up to you to decide if that's a bad thing or not." Now he has to imagine someone else actually attempting to take care of that bird without being murdered. Yeah. No, probably not.

"I wasn't-- I'm not brooding about it; you just brought it up. It's not as if I'm afraid to find out how it'll go, I just haven't had the money or opportunity to see for myself."