Joe Versus the Volcano1990

Joe:
Are you used to this?

Patricia:
What?

Joe:
The ocean, the stars.

Patricia:
You never get used to it. Why do you think I want this boat? All I want to do is sail away.

Joe:
Where would you go

Patricia:
Away from the things of man.

Joe:
Do you believe in God?

Patricia:
I believe in myself.

Joe:
What does that mean?

Patricia:
I have confidence in myself.

Joe:
I've done a lot of soul searching lately. I've been asking myself some tough questions. You know what I've found out?

Patricia:
What?

Joe:
I have no interest in myself. I think about myself, I get bored out of my mind.

Patricia:
What does interest you?

Joe:
I don't know. Courage. Courage interests me.

Patricia:
So you're going to spend the rest of your life on a tiny island in the South Pacific?

Joe:
Well, up till now I've lived on a tiny island called Staten Island, and I've commuted to a job in a shut up room with pumped in air, no sunshine, despicable people, and now that I've got some distance from that situation, that seems pretty unbelievable. Your life seems unbelievable to me. All this like life, seems unbelievable to me. Somewhat. At this moment.

Patricia:
My father says almost the whole world's asleep. Everybody you know, everybody you see, everybody you talk to. He says only a few people are awake. And they live in a state of constant, total amazement.

[they nearly kiss]

Joe:
I have less than six months to live. The Waponis believe they need a human sacrifice or their island's going to sink into the ocean. They have a mineral your father wants. He's hired me to jump in their volcano.

Patricia:
What?

Joe:
You're not going to make me say that again, are you?

Patricia:
No.

Joe:
Aren't you going to say anything?

Patricia:
I don't know what to say. You tell me you're dying, you tell me you're jumping into a volcano, my mind is a blank.