Literature worth our while will always overflow the boxes into which we try to stuff it.
"It's kind of like banning books, which we try to avoid," he said.
"Postmodernist theory tells us that we humans need meaningfulness, which we try to derive partly from consumer objects, especially clothes.
They do not facilitate an already difficult job, in which we try to be effective, professional and, at the same time, correct.
The paradox of Labor Day, which we try to honor by ceasing our labors, nicely catches the way those calendars collide in our lives.
And within these kinds of characters is often a certain element of darkness and obscurity, which we try to reflect in appearance and mannerisms.
"I mean, clearly, we recognize as a nation that there are certain fundamental symbols and values which we try to enshrine".
When we don't have it, there's a void, which we try to fill with sex, with drugs, with food, with alcohol, with buying things.
And before takeoff, the "No Check Cha Cha" (in which we try to shove 8 million bags into tiny overhead bins) keeps them hopping.
We are middle class, but have trouble putting away much for savings given our expenses (which we try to minimize, we don't pay for cable TV, for instance).
Playwrights are of course as bewildered as all of us by the imponderables of time and space and the language with which we try to explain them.
