Daily Inspiration Quote by Dario Fo

Childhood, in Dario Fo's hands, isn’t innocence; it’s a temporary dictatorship of possibility. The line swells with comic overstatement - “extraordinary hero,” “the whole of life in my hands,” the absurdly grand “carriage of the sun” - but the exaggeration is the point, not the garnish. Fo is showing how power first arrives: not as policy or ideology, but as a bodily rush, a private conviction that the world is responding to your grip. At five or six, the “hero” doesn’t need an audience. He needs a sensation.

That mythic image of driving the sun is doing double work. It’s playful, yes, but it also hints at the theatrical machinery Fo spent a lifetime exposing: who gets to “drive” the story, who gets cast as heroic, and how easily the role is assigned by circumstance. The child feels sovereign simply because he’s been handed something that resembles control. Fo’s theater, famously, takes that feeling and flips it against the adult world, where power is hoarded, mystified, and defended with ritual language.

The subtext is almost melancholic: this is a memory of maximum agency that adulthood can’t quite match. Fo lets the child’s ecstatic self-mythologizing stand because it reveals a truth his satire keeps returning to - the systems that dominate us are, at root, stagecraft. If a kid can feel like he’s steering the sun, then a state can make citizens feel small with the same cheap tricks.