“Ideology is: intellectual ordering of the feelings; an objective connection among them that makes the subjective connection easier.”
“Serious fans always need to feel uniquely connected to the object of their fandom; they jealously guard those points of connection, however tiny or imaginary, that justify the feeling of uniqueness.”
“Everyday it gets easier to connect with an electronic device that it is to connect with real people.”
“Why do we feel the need to disconnect in order to connect?”
“Boys often need us to give them more time than girls need, and they often need us to connect their feelings to objects in the outside world.”
“Eventually everything connects - people, ideas, objects. The quality of the connections is the key to quality per se.”