.SEAN
Do you think you’re alone?
WILL
What?
SEAN
Do you have a soul-mate?
WILL
Define that.
SEAN
Someone who challenges you in every way.  Who takes you places, opens things up for you. A soul-mate.
WILL
Yeah.
Sean waits.

WILL
Shakespeare, Neitzche, Frost, O’Connor, Chaucer, Pope, Kant–
SEAN
They’re all dead.
WILL
Not to me, they’re not.
SEAN
But you can’t give back to them, Will.
WILL
Not without a heater and some serious smelling salts, no…
SEAN
That’s what I’m saying, Will. You’ll never have that kind of relationship in a world where you’re afraid to take the first step because all you’re seeing are the negative things that might happen ten miles down the road.
WILL
Oh, what? You’re going to take the professor’s side on this?
SEAN
Don’t give me your line of shit.
WILL
I didn’t want the job.
SEAN
It’s not about that job. I’m not saying you should work for the government. But, you could do anything you want. And there are people who work their whole lives layin’ brick so their kids have a chance at the kind of opportunity you have. What do you want to do?
WILL
I didn’t ask for this.
SEAN
Nobody gets what they ask for, Will. That’s a cop-out.