[It doesn't help that sometimes Hiro doesn't listen the first time either, not when he's fixated on his own ideas.]

Hey, I'm not the one opposed to working with other people. Try telling that to everybody else out there. [Other than the fact that that, of course, is also a lie. He has his qualms about working with certain people but he's trying. He's being selective, but it's a start.]

Doesn't it ever bug you not to have a choice? [He feels like he's asked this before but it's a concept that he can't wrap his head around.]