At this point in my life, beaming confidence is largely a matter of mind over bladder control

I'm going to go pee. If the universe is bigger and stranger than I can imagine, it's best to meet it with an empty bladder.

There are few moments of clarity more profound than those that follow the emptying of an overcharged bladder. The world slows down, the focus sharpens, the brain comes back on line. Huge nebulous difficulties prove on close calm examination to be merely cloud giants.

The fundamental difference between books and movies is that the length of a book does not depend upon the capacity of the human bladder.