effiestrinkets:

“Sometimes when you’ve had your time in the sunshine, you go, ‘Cool, now what gives all of this stuff meaning?’” - Robert Downey Jr for Esquire UK (November 2014)

abookishfiend:

Job one is get out of that cave. A lot of people do get out but don’t change. So the thing is to get out and recognize the significance of that aggressive denial of your fate, come through the crucible forged into a stronger metal. Or whatever. But I don’t even know if that was my experience. It’s funny: five years ago, I would’ve made it sound like I’m conscious of my own participation in seizing the similarities. But so many things have become less certain. I swear to God. I am not my story.