If love is love, it's free. - Saul Bellow

Can we find nothing good to say about TV? Well, yes, it brings scattered solitaries into a sort of communion. TV allows your isolated American to think that he participates in the life of the entire country. It does not actually place him in a community, but his heart is warmed with the suggestion (on the whole false) that there is a community somewhere in the vicinity and that his atomized consciousness will be drawn back toward the whole.

The old continued to have one resurgence of foolishness after another, until the organism gave out altogether.

People don't realize how much they are in the grip of ideas. We live among ideas much more than we live in nature.