You are the author of your own life.
"I write to destroy myself, but I always end up creating myself."
Those who do not have power over the story that dominates their lives, the power to retell it, rethink it, deconstruct it, joke about it, and change it as they change, truly are powerless, because they cannot think new thoughts.
The theatre is a place where one has time for the problems of people to whom one would show the door if they came to one's office for a job.