Joan of Arcadia (TV Series)

Anonymous (2004)

Louis Mustillo: Garbage Man God

Quotes 

• Garbage Man God : Hey, Joan. Where you off to?

  Joan Girardi : Where do you think I'm off to? Back to get humiliated by a dork with a sweater vest.

  Garbage Man God : What, you're not even gonna look?

  Joan Girardi : Like I'm actually gonan find a bunch of poems in this heap of trash, forget it.

  Garbage Man God : But the search is the whole point.

  Joan Girardi : Digging through the garbage is the point. Are you running a fever?

• Garbage Man God : Do you know the twelve labors of Hercules? A bunch of seemingly pointless tasks that won back his honor. And how 'bout Psyche? When she needed to find her way back to her love, Aphrodite put her to work sorting beans until they were reunited.

  Joan Girardi : Well, I saw "Hercules", but my parents wouldn't let me see "Psycho".

  Garbage Man God : Come on, Joan.

  Joan Girardi : It's disgusting in there.

  Garbage Man God : Searching for something of value is never easy.

  Joan Girardi : You mean one of those poems is actually worth something?

  [as she climbs in and starts to rummage, he turns to leave] 

  Joan Girardi : Hey, you're not even gonna help?

• Garbage Man God : I just wanted to say nice job.

  Joan Girardi : Nice job on what?

  Garbage Man God : Yearbook. You're finished.

  Joan Girardi : How can I be finished? I don't even know what my thing is yet. I mean, isn't that what this was supposed to be about?

  Garbage Man God : Well, maybe for you. I just wanted you to find that poem.

  Joan Girardi : Why? Nobody's ever gonna know who wrote it. Wh-what good does that do?

  Garbage Man God : Do you know who carved the façade of Notre Dame Cathedral? Or the sculptures at-at the Parthenon?

  Joan Girardi : I haven't gotten to that chapter yet.

  Garbage Man God : No one knows. Their names are lost to everyone but me. But does that make their creations any less beautiful?

  Joan Girardi : You know, I-I'd really love to feel like I've been working on Notre Dame, but somehow...

  Garbage Man God : Who you are is enough, Joan. You already have your thing. You're a searcher. You try, and you fail, and you try again.

  Joan Girardi : So my thing is failing? Thanks. That makes me feel a lot better.

  Garbage Man God : Stop hiding who you are.