"Do you need anything else, sir?" "More bread, perhaps?" "Not bread, but I will take another of these." "And you don't have to call me sir." "It creeps me out." "Yes, sir." "Sorry." "I'll be leaving now." "Hello." "Did you miss me?" "I did, but the waitress was totally flirting with me, so it was all right." "That sounds like fun." "lt was, but she's not really my type." "Good." "What is your type exactly?" "Generally I tend to prefer the brainy brunettes with brown eyes." "Can I ask you something?" "Feel free." "Why did you wait so long to ask me out?" "Well, for a while there I was otherwise engaged but I've taken care of that now, I promise." "Thank you." "So without further ado, I'd like to propose a toast, if I may." "You may." "To getting to know each other better." "Much better." "Well, Joey, that's not the overriding message." "Yes, it is." "Ultimately, Yossarian must accept that he's trapped in an insane world." "No, but he escapes in the end, so there's hope." "Hope for what?" "Beauty is, we don't know." "His escape is a testament to the power of one man's struggle against the system." "Hetson's interpretation is much bleaker." "Why does that not surprise me?" "If all you're gonna do on the final exam is regurgitate everything he said in class you're not really developing a mind of your own." "I'll develop a mind of my own later." "Right now I have to ace this final." "Remember a certain incident that happened last time I took a final for this man?" "This isn't happening." "What's wrong?" "God is punishing me." "Here." "Read this." "After my long and protracted battle with a substance-abuse problem the heartless administration of this esteemed university is gonna kick me out." "That seems pretty harsh." "l know." "Audrey, this is just a letter from the dean saying if you sign up for summer school, you can stay." "The dean can bite me, Jo." "You missed almost an entire semester." "What am I gonna do?" "I'm gonna be, like, alone here in this box all summer." "You leave in two days, right?" "Not by choice, but yeah." "Where are you going?" "To negotiate." "l don't think this is negotiable." "Everything is negotiable." "Okay, remind me again." "You are friends with her because...?" "She saved my life once in a bar in Calcutta." "Right." "She brings up an excellent point, Eddie." "We're gonna be kicked out of our love nest by week's end." "At which point we're gonna move into my car which I've got parked down by the river." "That is not the plan." "That's my plan." "Oh, yeah?" "I thought we were gonna work in the Cape this summer..." "..." "live at my sister's and save money." "Right." "And endure interrogations from your father about my lack of prospects." "You start school in the fall at one of the most prestigious writing programs." "Yes, yes, I know, in California." "And if we're gonna be ripped apart by geography in three short months I'm not gonna spend that time bussing tables." "I've got some bigger plans in mind." "And what do these bigger plans entail?" "Oh, no." "No." "Right now, you need to focus on one thing and one thing only." "After the exam, Jo, all will be revealed." "Well, and what if I can't wait that long?" "I think you can." "Maybe I'll just have to use my feminine wiles to pry it out of you." "My lips are sealed, Jo." "Nice try." "You officially suck." "Yeah, I'm pretty sure you don't wanna mix Mountain Dew and No-Doz." "Why?" "Because they both contain a lot of caffeine, and" "That Queens of the Stone Age album does really rock. lt's one" "First thing you need to do is take a deep breath." "Good." "Now, find somebody in your class, borrow their notes, and" "Okay, yes, yes." "We're here 24I7." "You can call back anytime, okay?" "All right." "Good luck." "Rough day?" "Exams bring out the worst in people." "The important thing is you talked him down from Mountain Dew and No-Doz." "That can be a deadly combination." "Yeah, I've done a real service to humanity." "Did you need something?" "So this whole mad thing hasn't worn off yet, huh?" "Speak quickly, Jack." "The phone could ring, and the problems of a feckless ex-boyfriend aren't much compared with suicidal anguish of graduating seniors." "Can we just stop this, please?" "Can we just talk?" "At least give me the same chance you give any stranger on that phone." "Just meet with me for an hour." "For half an hour, even." "Maybe." "Maybe?" "Yes." "Maybe." "I need some time to think about it." "Cool." "Very cool." "How much time?" "l don't know." "Look, I'll call you." "Or you could just meet me down at Hell's Kitchen tonight if you want." "I can't tonight." "I have a test tomorrow." "Tomorrow." "Tomorrow's fine." "Like, I don't know, what, after 8?" "I'm working until 9." "So you're coming?" "I said I would think about it." "Okay." "But listen, I'm busy here, so...." "Sure." "Yeah." "Understood." "Good morning, gentlemen." "I had sex with a beautiful woman last night." "This should not have happened." "She was out of my league." "I think I'm a fairly handsome guy but not that handsome." "And I think I'm good in bed, but not that good." "How does something like that happen?" "I'll tell you." "I'm 20 years old and I am doing exactly what I was put on this earth to do." "I am making money." "Hand over fist." "Faster than I know how to spend it." "And let's tell the truth." "You all came here today because you're trying to escape the miserable bottom-feeding existence that you've been living that has denied you what is rightfully yours." "If you want this for yourselves, you can have it." "But I'm here to tell you, you will get your asses kicked on a daily basis but you will learn, and ultimately you will do what you were put on this earth to do, which is make money." "If any of you are still interested in this proposition be here 9 a.m. sharp Monday morning." "If you are late, do not come into my building." "Turn around, go home, and prepare yourselves for a life in retail." "I'll see you then." "Hey, how'd it go?" "How do you think?" "I learned from the best." "That's sweet." "You wanna make out?" "Maybe later. I gotta brush my teeth." "What the hell's that about?" "That, Mr. Witter is the sound of blood rushing to the nether regions." "The Stepatech approval went through?" "Not quite yet, but that stock is climbing." "Okay, good enough." "Call Roger and congratulate him." "Will do, boss." "That date with Sadia last night, did you close the deal?" "Why don't you ask those guys?" "That does it, Witter. I used to be mildly impressed." "Now I am in awe." "Nicely done, my friend." "Nicely done." "You know, that's just what she said." "Well, that is definitely one of the better ways to start the day." "I do have a few other tricks up my sleeve but I thought I'd keep it simple." "I didn't wanna blow your mind just yet." "My God, woman, you are way out of my league." "I know. I know." "Hold on one sec." "Rates across the board are pushing" "Excuse me." "I'm sorry, but today's the day that the FDA's ruling on Stepatech's miracle flu thingy." ""Thingy"?" "How can you be so excited about something that you refer to as a thingy?" "I know. I'm sorry, but I have a lot of money wrapped up in this thingy." "And this thingy will buy me a new car." "Maybe even a new house." "Wait a minute." "How did someone as young as you get to be so career-obsessed?" "I used to be obsessed about a lot of other things." "Well, mostly girls, really." "And then with this one recent dalliance probably better left in the past I realized that a career is actually a very healthy obsession." "No offence, of course." "None taken." "I mean, it's not like you're my boyfriend or anything." "I have one of those, and, quite frankly they're overrated." "I wholeheartedly concur." "And this other girl?" "Well, she doesn't know what she's missing." "Well, like I said, she's in a past life and I'm quite happy with the life I'm leading." "And as they say, I always have my work." "And then there's me." "And then there's you, which is proof positive that there is, in fact, a god, and that Pacey J. Witter is his favoured son." "What does the "J." stand for?" "Wouldn't you like to know." "Oh, if you wanted me to torture you, Pacey, all you had to do was ask." "Really?" "The mark et action this morning has been spurred by the continued strength of the dollar." "Against the-- And I feel that" "So, what do you say?" "More coffee?" "More coffee?" "How could I possibly drink any more coffee?" "We've been sitting engaged in this pre-test caffeination for two hours now." "I didn't want you to be late, now, did I?" "I seem to recall this is how my academic downfall began in the first place." "If it isn't Bonnie and Clyde." "Don't TAs usually monitor these exams?" "You've forgotten about my bionic hearing, Mr. Doling." "And believe it or not, I actually enjoy proctoring my own exams." "I figure if Nabokov had time to do it while teaching at Cornell really, who am I to put myself so far above the little people?" "In other words, he derives some sick pleasure from watching us squirm." "I can see over the last two semesters that you've learned how to read me." "Whether or not you've acquired a similar mastery of postwar American literature really remains to be seen." "You know, I never did get a chance to thank him for his recommendation." "You're gonna do it now?" "What's the worst that could happen?" "He could be rude and ungracious, say something unforgivable and you could punch him in the face again." "I'm not gonna punch him in his face again." "What?" "You don't think I'm capable of being the bigger person here?" "I know that you're the bigger person." "I just think you're underestimating how small he can be." "Well, I refuse to accept that." "Hey, Professor Hetson." "Mr. Doling, how can I help you?" "Actually, I kind of thought maybe I'd like to thank you for you know, helping me out with that school thing." "You kind of thought maybe you'd like to thank me?" "Your eloquence astounds me." "I thought maybe I'd like to thank you, but now that I've heard your tone I'm thinking maybe I should just bail on the whole concept." "Well, that is your specialty, isn't it?" "Okay, you two." "Didn't I say this was going to happen?" "Hey, he started it." "Let me know when you've returned from the third grade. ln the meantime all he's trying to say is thank you." "Two simple words." "I believe the appropriate response is "you're welcome." Maybe "good luck."" "Whatever." "Whatever?" "I encourage you to accept this as it's the best you'll ever do." "Whatever." "Great." "My work here is done." "Now, can you please leave?" "Because I fear all of this spontaneous outpouring of emotion is throwing me off my game." "Whatever." "Great." "Goodbye." "All right." "Bye." "Dawson Leery." "Excellent." "Put him right through." "Dawson." "What's up, man?" "Hey, Pace, not much." "Listen, I've been thinking." "Let me guess." "You're nerv ous, right?" "Nervous?" "Who, me?" "Thousands of dollars at play in a stock market, which, from what I understand can only be described as globally weak?" "No." "Who's nervous?" "Okay, how about this." "Just trust me, and I promise everything will be all right." "Have I ever let you down in the past?" "Actually, don't answer." "But seriously, though, I'm not nervous." "I just-- l'm thinking it might be time to cash out." "I've got film to buy, and from what I understand that's gonna be my biggest expense, so...." "Okay, Dawson, here's the deal." "I know that you need to make money and that you need to make it fast, so I've invested you in this biotech company called Stepatech." "They have a miracle flu vaccine that is up for approval by the FDA right now and the word on the street is it's a shoo-in." "So if you can hold on for just a few more days I promise it will be worth your while." "It'll be like the difference between making El Mariachi and Clerks." "Okay, well, at least that's jargon that I understand." "I guess in the spirit of Clerks, I could charge the film." "I've been applying for credit cards and two came today." "I think that's what's commonly known as a sign, my friend." "Maybe so." "Maybe so." "Okay, so we're cool here, right?" "What--?" "I don't know." "It's all something out of a Mamet movie to me." "I don't know what I'm talking about, but I trust you." "Keep me posted." "Will do." "Later, man." "I mean, what kind of a sadist asks for things like Lolita's married name or what day of the week it was on the first page of Gravity's Rainbow?" "Well, I don't know, Jo." "I'd say that that depends." "On?" "On whether you knew the answers to those two questions." "Schiller." "And?" "Monday." "So we're talking about completely acing it here." "I mean, not just sliding by or a partial ace?" "No." "No." "I had complete and total mastery of every arcane fact in Hetson's universe." "So?" "Are we gonna celebrate or what?" "Of course." "Well, does this celebration involve anything other than standing here?" "So now that my usefulness as your study partner has ended you just wanna skip to the present part." "But I thought you said it was a surprise." "Well, you know, presentIsurprise." "Well, whatever it is, is it coming any time soon?" "Yeah, actually. it is." "Here." "I wrapped it myself." "Yeah, I can see that." "You don't like it." "Oh, no. I...." "I...." "Don't know what to say." "You're giving me your backpack." "Joey, it's not my backpack." "I mean, I bought this special just for you." "In fact, you know, there may be something inside here." "You probably should check." "I should check?" "Yeah." "Yeah." "Just in case there's an additional level of gift." "I don't get it." "That girl who was always telling me how she could have gone to Paris." "Well, I think it's about time that she put her money where her mouth is." "And I'm not talking about just Paris here, Joey." "I'm talking about Barcelona and Madrid and Vienna and Prague and wherever." "I mean, the sky's the limit, Jo." "And all you have to do is just say yes." "Are you serious?" "Completely." "I want every moment we spend together this summer to be historic." "And I figure the best way to do that is to, you know, go to where the history is." "So, what do you say?" "Oh, my God!" "Yes." "Yes." "All right, Jack, I'll see you there." "Okay, I'll see you." "Hey." "Hey." "Thanks for coming." "Have you been waiting long?" "No." "Actually, I ran into a guy from my sociology class." "Yeah, I saw." "Look, it's not what you think." "That's completely innocent." "By which you're implying the other thing wasn't." "You're not even gonna give me a chance?" "I mean, it's like you structured this whole scene before you walked in." "I had two versions, actually." "Let me guess." "You're gonna use the one where l'm the bad guy?" "Yeah." "Yeah." "You led me on, you know." "The Halloween party when we first met." "You led me to believe you were one of the undead." "lf you won't take this seriously-- -l'm being serious." "I have a serious Tom Cruise-vampire Lestat fantasy that I need to fulfil while I'm still young." "Which is why I'm breaking up with you." "What?" "Yeah, you know it has to be done." "I was just kidding myself" "Hold on a second. lf you think I'm gonna let you walk out like this" "Come on, David." "This isn't how I wanted this to turn out." "Well, guess what?" "It is." "Sucks, huh?" "Or maybe it doesn't." "Maybe you'll get off easy and it's only my heart getting broken." "Why do you say things like that?" "I wouldn't be here if I didn't wanna make it work." "You're here to prove something to yourself." "Prove what?" "Look, Jack I want what everybody wants." "I wanna be important to somebody." "Maybe you want that, too, but.... lf you do, to be honest, I can't really see it because all I see when I look at you is somebody going through the motions because he thinks it's the right thing to do." "I don't know." "I just know that that isn't enough for me." "So." "Goodbye." "Wait." "You're just gonna walk away?" "Have a good summer, Jack, and keep in touch." "So Prague first and then Budapest?" "Or would it make more sense the other way?" "Or we could just skip central Europe and stay longer in Spain." "No, we can't skip Prague." "We have to see the castles." "And plus, we owe it to Kafka and Milan Kundera." "I may have to implement a rule limiting you to one writer's grave per country." "Well, that's never, ever going to work, now, is it?" "Why not?" "Because in France, how are we gonna choose between Proust and Flaubert?" "Aren't they the same guy?" "Kiss me and I promise never to tell Hetson you uttered such blasphemy." "Deal." "But if we do actually do this there's something you should know that I've never told you." "I already know. I know you snore." "In addition to my love for literature I also have a great and profound appreciation for the visual arts." "What?" "Like, David, Sistine Chapel, the Mona Lisa?" "That type of stuff?" "No, don't think you're just gonna get away with the Renaissance." "I'm talking Picasso in Paris, the Van Gogh Museum" "Okay. I get it, I get it." "So what you're saying is that you wanna do everything." "Yes!" "Yes." "Well, everything within reason." "Within reason?" "Well, yeah. I mean, we should be somewhat practical." "You want to be practical about running away together?" "Well, I mean, running away together isn't as easy as it looks on TV." "I mean, believe me." "I've done it before." "We're gonna get back in the fall." "We'll be starting school." "We're gonna be completely broke." "So?" "So that thought doesn't terrify you?" "No." "Not more than the thought of not spending the summer with you." "Or not seeing your face the first time you see the Eiffel Tower or London Bridge or the Plaza San Marco in Venice." "You know, it's not like either of us have any money now." "I mean, we're broke." "So what?" "We start over." "Rebuild things from scratch." "With you in California and me here?" "Yeah, and a whole lifetime's worth of memories." "Things that will never leave us no matter how broke we get." "Eddie." "All I'm saying is that running away together, no matter how romantic and magical it all seems at the time, it doesn't solve anything, okay?" "So whatever it is you're running from whether it be circumstances or geography you know, fate, another person it's always gonna be there when you get back." "What would you suggest to solve these problems, Joey?" "What, do you wanna just ignore opportunities that come our way?" "No!" "I'm just...." "l'm trying to be practical." "Which means what exactly?" "Maybe we should just wait." "You know, scale back a little." "Scale back?" "Yeah, maybe work for a month or two and then go." "We're gonna spend the rest of our lives working." "Yeah, and we have the entire summer to take this trip." "Nobody said we have to go tomorrow." "I do." "What?" "You don't...." "You don't even really wanna do this, do you?" "Of course I wanna do this." "Yeah, but only on your terms." "Well, whose terms am I supposed to be doing this on, Eddie?" "I mean, if I'm gonna throw my life entirely off-course for the chance" "Oh, my" " What are you talking about, throwing it off-course?" "I'm not asking you to throw your life off-course, Joey." "I'm talking about a summer here." "All I'm asking is that you take a leap." "Come away with me." "Like Saul Bellow or On The Road?" "Eddie, those are just stories, poems." "Little pieces of unreality that we're not meant to base our lives on." "Eventually we always have to come back and deal with the real world." "So what?" "What are you gonna do?" "You'll just sit here for your entire life waiting for the world to come to you?" "Because the point of those stories, Joey, is that people's lives their real lives, only begin when they step out into the world." "And when you do that, when you meet it head-on maybe you change the world, maybe you don't but the point is, is that it changes you." "And that is what people mean when they talk about growing up." "So, what?" "If I wanna be with you I'm supposed to just throw all of my previous life experience out?" "I'm just supposed to stop being who I am?" "Who you are, Joey, is not some scared little girl who's afraid to take chances on anything." "Who's afraid to really love because of the risk or the pain." "That does not define you as a person." "Or maybe it does, you know?" "I mean, maybe I'm crazy." "Maybe you've just blinded me." "Are you done?" "You should probably find somewhere else to sleep tonight." "Believe me, it's like a morgue around here." "Hey, look, I took a major hit too." "All right. I'll talk to you soon." "Do me a favour." "Stay away from open windows." "I don't wanna hear that they had to scrape you off the sidewalk." "He didn't find that funny." "Go figure." "What the hell's happening here?" "First, you're late." "Where have you been?" "Forget it. I don't wanna hear about your exploits with Lois Lane." "l'm depressed enough as it is." "l'm being serious." "What's going on?" "What the hell do you think, dumb-ass?" "FDA issued their ruling this morning." "Big fat rejection." "But Rich, you said Stepatech was a sure thing." "Yeah, well, so did everyone else." "Turns out the miracle flu medication has a bunch of nasty side effects the FDA does not wish to inflict on the American public." "Rich, this is a disaster." "Settle down, rookie." "I've seen worse. I've lost more." "Get over it." "Live to trade another day." "Live to trade another day?" "I've been shoving Stepatech down my client's throats for six months." "Pacey, Stock Market 1 01 ." "Biotech stocks are sketchy, especially these days." "You're gonna get screamed and yelled at today but it's not your fault." "It's just a professional hazard." "You all right?" "Gonna toss your cookies?" "No, no. I'll be fine." "Listen, take a deep breath, go back to your office you probably have 1 00 phone calls to return." "Listen to them, be concerned, be sympathetic, but be strong." "And remember, they got themselves into this mess, not you." "Got it?" "Get out of here." "Get to work." "So Potter, here we are again, right back where we started from." "Advisor." "Advisee." "And you still no closer to having declared a major." "I didn't wanna give you the satisfaction, but, English." "English." "I can always change it later to something like marine biology, but...." "Can I go now?" "What, no interest in tripping down memory lane with me?" "Not particularly, no." "I do have other things on my plate at the moment." "Yeah." "That first time you came to my office here that was your birthday, right?" "My birthday?" "Yeah." "The day before my birthday." "So how was it?" "My birthday?" "Yeah." "I'm sorry I didn't get you anything." "You know what?" "I realize that this is very exciting for you reminding me how I wasted an entire year of my life and never really actually lived up to my academic potential." "But...." "You more than lived up to your potential." "A minus?" "This means...." "Factoring in all your papers from this semester and last brings your grade to a C plus for the year." "Just slightly above average." "You got a problem with that?" "No." "No." "You know, the sad thing is is that I almost gave you an A." "And I went back and forth about it, and then...." "Ultimately, I found your essay on Catch-22 a little bleak." "You found it bleak?" "It's a story of hope, Joey." "I mean, this man confronted with the absolute absurdity of the human condition-- l mean, he's terrified to his core." "He takes a leap of faith." "He chooses life." "Here, page 461 ." "Read the part that's marked." ""'They'll have to try like hell to catch me this time." "They will." "Even if they don't find you, what kind of way is that to live?" "You'll always be alone and you'll always live in danger of betrayal." "I live that way now." "You can't just turn your back on all your responsibilities and run away' Major Danby insisted." "'lt's a negative move. lt's escapist.'" "Yossarian laughed with buoyant scorn and shook his head." "'l'm not running away from my responsibilities." "I'm running to them." "There's nothing negative about running away to save my life."'" "As I said in class, a lot of critics find that moment too sentimental." "An author ham-fistedly reaching in and injecting an amoral tale with a moral." "An embarrassing betrayal of all the dark comedy that came before it." "But me?" "I've always kind of liked it." "It has such a nice, hopeful ring to it." "Do you see my point?" "Yes, I do." "I'm sorry, did it seem like I was done?" "I kind of have someplace I need to be right now." "We'll continue next semester." "Do you think I'm ever gonna let you into my classes again?" "No." "Do you honestly think I'm ever gonna sign up for one of your classes again?" "But I do need an advisor." "And you'd like that to be me?" "Yes, I would." "Because it is my fondest wish to continue tormenting you until the day I finally leave this institution." "But, if it works out that I never see you again, that's fine too." "Bye-bye." "So there is a soul in there somewhere." "And to think I just assumed you were another one of Rich Rinaldi's pet sharks." "Sadia, I just screwed over my best friend." "I've felt sick to my stomach all day." "My other clients knew what they were getting themselves into." "But Dawson entrusted me with his entire life savings and I pissed it all away." "How could I let that happen?" "Okay, this happens all the time." "It's just the life of being a broker." "Well, that's not acceptable to me." "I have to fix this." "Do you mind if I ask you a few questions?" "Yeah, sure." "On the record?" "Okay...." "Maybe later?" "Later, yeah, I think later would probably be better." "Thank you." "Oh, not tonight, though." "I already have plans." "Let me guess, the boyfriend?" "Fiancé, actually." "The fiancé?" "Really?" "The hits just keep on coming." "No." "It's just this long-distance relationship, you know and it's just kind of boring, you know?" "Right, as long as it's boring, that makes everything okay." "Well, it was good while it lasted, I guess." "Call me if you wanna talk." "Sure." "Sure." "You're welcome." "Bye." "Hey." "Hey." "Either you just failed an exam or last night didn't go as well as I expected it to." "You know I've never really cared that much about school." "I'm sorry." "It's not your fault." "Do you think I was just going out with David to prove something to myself?" "Something about what?" "Just to prove that I could do it, that I could be in a relationship." "You know, have a boyfriend." "I don't know. I mean, is that something you feel like you needed to prove?" "Yeah." "Who wants to be that 35-year-old guy that's living alone and still going out to the bar scene trying to find the right person?" "Give me a break." "You're 20 years old." "You're not even legally old enough to be in those bars let alone haunt them with your sad single self." "Yeah, that from the girl who was on a first-name basis with half the bouncers in New York." "Look...." "My point is is that I don't think that everybody meets the love of their life when they're a teenager." "Or when they're 25." "Or even when they're 35." "But that doesn't mean that you stop looking and hoping." "You know, because you will meet that person and when you do, I guess you know it." "You're gonna end up with C.J." "You know, David used to say that he knew you guys were gonna stick, because you gave him hope." "Me?" "Yeah." "I mean, you gave me hope." "You did it, and you found somebody that makes you happy." "Somebody who's not gay." "Yeah, well, he's slightly gay if only in the seventh-grade sense of the term." "He does make me happy." "Even when things are awful." "You know, I'd share him with you if I could." "Thanks, but that's not necessary." "Who do we have left, Miss Seater?" "Just Dawson Leery." "You want him?" "Pacey, do you want him?" "No, no." "You're not gonna hold me up." "I got a hot date of my own tonight." "I admit it." "You shamed me, Witter." "Now I gotta spend my nights keeping up with my frigging protégé." "That's great. I wanna ask you one thing before you go." "As long as it doesn't involve me holding you while you cry." "I promise." "What is it, kid?" "Well, I was just wondering if maybe you could cover me?" "Loan me a little money?" "You're kidding, right?" "No. I wish I was, but...." "You have no idea how hard it is for me to ask you for this, Rich but a friend of mine, he came to me and he wanted to double his money really fast so I put it all into Stepatech." "Well, that was a stupid move, Pacey." "But he wanted to pull out and I told him not to, to trust me and ride the thing out and this guy is my oldest and closest childhood friend." "I cannot screw him like this, Rich." "lt's already done, Pacey." "No, I'm serious." "All I wanna do is give him back his initial investment." "Then I'll pay you back with whatever interest you want." "What about you?" "What happened to your disposable income?" "I got nothing left." "Everything I had was in Stepatech." "I'm worth like, I don't know, $300 right now." "You know, it's funny." "You're so good at your job, you're so confident I sometimes forget how young and stupid you are." "Please, Rich, I need your help, not the speech right now, okay?" "Oh, I think you do, actually." "I'll say what you should have told your little friend in the first place." "No." "That's it?" "That's all you have to say to me?" "I come to you, I embarrass myself, and you just say no?" "Pretty much, yeah." "You know, sometimes you're so good at your job I forget you're an unfeeling prick." "You work for me. I'm your boss." "Watch your tone." "Okay, Rich, I'm just asking you for one favour!" "Just one time!" "I don't do favours, Witter." "Why not?" "God forbid you drop the Gordon Gekko routine for a second?" "This would be so easy for you, man." "Just help me out here!" "Help you out?" "I gave you a job, Witter." "I gave you a chance to escape some bottom-feeder existence and every step of the way, you have been a holier-than-thou pain in the ass." "So you tell me, why should I help you out?" "Take this pen." "Take this pen, Witter, and write down today's date." "Because from this day forward, you're going to amount to nothing." "You are a failure and a loser, and you deserve everything that can" "It's all over, Pace." "Don't worry." "You're fired. it's what you wanted all along, anyway." "Loser." "I'm all for going to Europe, but I don't understand why anyone would wanna do it on $5 a day." "Five dollars doesn't even buy you a pint of Guinness in Dublin." "The registrar closes in 1 0 minutes." "That's not exactly a course catalogue." "I know." "But all the summer-school classes just look so boring, Joey." "Who said you shouldn't take a class where Beowulf is required reading?" "Me." "I thought it was Woody Allen." "Unless you're going to enrol in Santa Monica Junior College, hurry." "All right." "All right." "And can you hand me that book?" "I have to start reading for my trip." "What?" "Since when did you decide to go?" "Since now." "Joey Potter, you are just full of little surprises." "Dear Joey as you know, I'm not good at goodbyes but I guess that's what this is, a real one this time." "Because as much as I thought I wanted us to be together I guess what I want more is to be one of those people  who lives every moment of his life without indecision, without regrets someone who dares to disturb the universe  without a thought to the consequences." "And you're not one of those people." "At least not yet." "Maybe you'll prove me wrong about that one day." "I hope you do, but who knows?" "Maybe people can't change." "Maybe we're doomed to repeat the same mistak es over and over again no matter how hard we try." "I always hope for a happy ending." "How crazy is that?" "Tak e care of yourself."