ALDONZA
Why do you do these things?

DON QUIXOTE
What things?

ALDONZA
These ridiculous the things you do!

DON QUIXOTE
I hope to add some measure of grace to the world

ALDONZA
The world's a dung heap and we are maggots that crawl on it!

DON QUIXOTE
My Lady knows better in her heart

ALDONZA
What's in my heart will get me halfway to hell
And you, Seor Don Quixote-you're going to take
such a beating!

DON QUIXOTE
Whether I win or lose does not matter

ALDONZA
What does?

DON QUIXOTE
Only that I follow the quest

ALDONZA
(spits)
That for your Quest!
(turns, marches away; stops, turns bock
and asks, awkwardly)
What does that mean quest?

DON QUIXOTE
It is the mission of each true knight
His duty nay, his privilege!
To dream the impossible dream,
To fight the unbeatable foe,
To bear with unbearable sorrow
To run where the brave dare not go;
To right the unrightable wrong

To love, pure and chaste, from afar,
To try, when your arms are too weary,
To reach the unreachable star!

This is my Quest to follow that star,
No matter how hopeless, no matter how far,
To fight for the right
Without question or pause,
To be willing to march into hell
For a heavenly cause!

And I know, if I'll only be true
To this glorious Quest,
That my heart will lie peaceful and calm
When I'm laid to my rest

And the world will be better for this,
That one man, scorned and covered with scars,
Still strove, with his last ounce of courage,
To reach the unreachable stars!