The reason to retire is to try to avoid embarrassment; you ought to do it before people are dropping big hints. You want to be the first to come up with the idea. You don't want to wait until you trip and fall off the stage.

I'm not a big texter anyway. I'm really slow at it and so I try to avoid it to avoid embarrassment, you know what I mean?

You can't wait for someone to give you a show. That can't be the first time you're writing and drawing a character.

Big mistake, ... Why do I need another weekly deadline?

Nineteen years old, your first trip, do you have any idea how long we have been waiting?

Thank you, dear God, for this good life and forgive us if we do not love it enough. Thank you for the rain. And for the chance to wake up in three hours and go fishing: I thank you for that now, because I won't feel so thankful then.