"The problem with biding your time here is that you're always doing it. Hell, I've been doing it." Holding off on using that chess piece until the opportune moment, because...fuck, what if he ends up really needing it? What if there's something worse down the line? What if this chance is better off not being taken?

Is there a choice there, a question of gauging the best time to actually act? Or is there just never a good time, period?

Personally, he leans toward the latter.