“We had to simplify it. Diddy is more personal. We are entering into the age of Diddy. It’s a new era.”

— Sean “Diddy” Combs, on why he changed his moniker from P. Diddy, to Access Hollywood

“We can only be said to be alive in those moments when our hearts are conscious of our treasures.”

— Thornton Wilder

From our friend Homer J —

“I’ve always wondered if there was a god. And now I know there is — and it’s me.”

Whew, Hockey God got an earful yesterday.

From Wacky Boy, as he resisted, well, everything: “This is what I call cooperating.” (ie — he was completely refusing to cooperate.)

From Wacky Girl, when WD was trying to talk to her: “You don’t understand the life of a woman.” (His response: “No, and I never will.”)

“We can’t solve problems by using the same kind of thinking we used when we created them.”

— Albert Einstein, physicist, Nobel laureate (1879-1955)

quote of the hour (I just heard Bush speak on NPR, comparing Iraq with World War Two):

“War would end if the dead could return.”

— Stanley Baldwin, statesman (1867-1947)

“Don’t tell me the moon is shining; show me the glint of light on broken glass.”

— Anton Chekhov, short-story writer and dramatist (1860-1904)

“The biggest myth about Southern women is that we are frail types — fainting on our sofas — nobody where I grew up every acted like that. We were about as fragile as coal trucks.”

–Lee Smith

Go see “Walk the Line,” it rocks. June Carter Cash and Johnny Cash, you’re living forever in our hearts.

“The problem with the world is that everyone is a few drinks behind.”
— Humprey Bogart

“Throw your dreams into space like a kite, and you do not know what it will bring back, a new life, a new friend, a new love, or a new country.”

— Anais Nin, author (1903-1977)