“I fail too much to be good as a real person, being anonymous makes me less real.”
“Some people are too good to be real; I'm too real to be good.”
“Forty seemed about right, and it occurred to me that it's too bad for a fella to die at forty, a real shame. It's a man's most anonymous age.”
“Being myself is the one thing that people would want to see out of me, they don't want to see me being the fake person that the world wants me to be, all they want to see is the real me, the real person that is inside of me.”
“You got to get outta here, Josie. New Orleans is fine for some people, real good for a few. But not for you. Too much baggage that’ll pull you down. You got dreams and the potential to make ’em real.”
“I can't tell if she's actually real, or if she's stopped caring if she's real or not. Or is not caring what makes a person real?”