- Michael: If soulmates do exist, they're not found, they're made. People meet, they get a good feeling, and they get to work building a relationship.
- Chidi Anagonye: Can I ask you a question? Soulmates aren't... real, are they?
- Michael: Chidi, in all honesty, I don't know. But I don't think so. I knew what you expected to find when you got here: answers. Also, if I recall from your file, a magic blackboard?
- Chidi Anagonye: One that anticipates your lesson flow. That's the dream.
- Michael: But mostly you wanted answers, the soulmate one in particular. So I used it to torture you... which, again, sorry.
- [beat]
- Michael: If soulmates do exist, they're not found, they're made. People meet, they get a good feeling, and then they get to work building a relationship. Like your parents. They didn't magically stay together because you proved they should.
- Chidi Anagonye: [shakes his head] It wasn't my logic or my presentation, it was... the feeling they got watching me, this scared little kid telling them that he needed them.
- Michael: And it was also what you made them remember: they loved each other. Sometimes people forget. You reminded them of what they already had. It convinced them to go to counseling.
- Chidi Anagonye: [slight laugh] I never knew they went to counseling.
- Michael: Yeah, kids are idiots. If they knew half the stuff their folks were up to, they'd lose their minds.
- Chidi Anagonye: Turns out life isn't just a puzzle to be solved one time and it's done. You wake up every day and you solve it again.
- Michael: [wryly] Terribly inefficient.
- Chidi Anagonye: What a time to learn.
- [last lines]
- Chidi Anagonye: Hey, uh, Janet? Can I have my note, please?
- Janet: If you know that you wrote a note, then you remember what it says.
- Chidi Anagonye: I do, uh, but I'd still like to see it again, please. I think it might be some of the best writing I've ever done.
- [Janet returns Chidi's note; Chidi unfolds it, reads it silently, and smiles]
- Chidi's Note: There is no "answer". But Eleanor is the answer.
- Esmeralda: [playing charades] Blood. Seas of blood. Enemies. 1000 years of darkness.
- Chidi Anagonye: Uh... nightmares.
- Esmeralda: Blood. Ennui. Lamenting the unanswerable passage of time! Fire and blood!
- [buzzer sounds]
- Esmeralda: Ugh, you fool! It was "birthday parties".
- Chidi Anagonye: [frowns] Birthday parties?
- Esmeralda: These trivialities demean me. I must away and tend to my ravens.
- Michael: [getting ready to erase Chidi's memories] You sure you want to do this?
- Chidi Anagonye: I finally make up my mind about one damn thing and you try to talk me out of it?
- Young Chidi: Every problem has an answer. If you just read enough books and think hard enough, you can figure out the answer to any question.
- Young Uzo: I know you're really smart, but that sounds wrong.
- Chidi Anagonye: So, what do you think?
- Professor Thomas Radja: I think it's 3,600 pages. I have a job, Chidi. I have a family. Until I had to read this, I had a will to live. This work is an insane, entangled web of inscrutability!
- Chidi Anagonye: In the fun, grad students will analyze this for centuries way?
- Professor Thomas Radja: No, in the Unabomber way.
- Professor Thomas Radja: The greatest works of moral philosophy are emotional. They make an argument about how the world is and ought to be. There is a great mind at work in here. But where is the heart? Where are the guts?
- Chidi Anagonye: I understand. I do. So I'm going to go home and compose a short paper for you... arguing that I should continue working on this longer paper.
- Professor Radja: [the professor pushes Chidi out of his office] Shut up!