Rust: People out here, it's like they don't even know the outside world exists. Might as well be living on the fucking Moon.
Marty: There's all kinds of ghettos in the world.
R: It's all one ghetto, man, giant gutter in outer space.
M: Today, that scene, that is the most fucked up thing I ever caught. Ask you something? You're a Christian, yeah?
R: No.
M: Well, then what do you got the cross for in your apartment?
R: That's a form of meditation.
M: How's that?
R: I contemplate the moment in the garden, the idea of allowing your own crucifixion.
M: But you're not a Christian. So what do you believe?
R: I believe that people shouldn't talk about this type of shit at work.
M: Hold on, hold on. Uh... 3 months we been together, I get nothing from you. Today, what we're into now, do me a courtesy, okay? I'm not trying to convert you.
R: Look. I consider myself a realist, all right, but in philosophical terms, I'm what's called a pessimist.
M: Um, okay. What's that mean?
R: Means I'm bad at parties.
M: Heh. Let me tell you. You ain't great outside of parties either.
R: I think human consciousness was a tragic misstep in evolution. We became too self-aware. Nature created an aspect of nature separate from itself. We are creatures that should not exist by natural law.
M: Huh. That sounds god-fucking-awful, Rust.
R: We are things that labor under the illusion of having a self, this accretion of sensory experience and feeling, programmed with total assurance that we are each somebody when, in fact, everybody's nobody.
M: I wouldn't go around spouting that shit, I was you. People around here don't think that way. I don't think that way.
R: I think the honorable thing for species to do is deny our programming, stop reproducing, walk hand in hand into extinction, one last midnight, brothers and sisters opting out of a raw deal.
M: So what's the point of getting out bed in the morning?
R: I tell myself I bear witness, but the real answer is that it's obviously my programming, and I lack the constitution for suicide.
M: My luck, I picked today to get to know you. 3 months, I don't hear a word from you, and...
R: You asked.
M: Yeah. And now I'm begging you to shut the fuck up.
R: I get a bad taste in my mouth out here. Aluminum, ash, like you can smell the psychosphere.
M: I got an idea. Let's make the car a place of silent reflection from now on, okay?
R: What should I bring for dinner?
M: A bottle of wine would be nice, I guess.
R: I don't drink.
M: Well, no, of course not, Rust. Listen. When you're at my house, I want you to chill the fuck out. Don't even mention any of that bullshit you just said to me.
R: Of course not, Marty. I'm not some kind of maniac, all right? I mean, for fuck's sake.