Jonathan Tropper

“Whatever the opposite of a plan is, that's what I've got.”

— Jonathan Tropper

“Phillip, who is congenitally incapable of moderation,”

— Jonathan Tropper

I may not be old but I’m too old to have this much nothing

— Jonathan Tropper

“He was right here and nowhere to be found.”

— Jonathan Tropper

“A lot can go wrong in twelve hours.”

— Jonathan Tropper

“one of the lounge chairs. Serena”

— Jonathan Tropper

The future just isn't what it used to be

— Jonathan Tropper

Get comfortable with being alone. It will empower you.

— Jonathan Tropper

“In my family, we don’t so much air our grievances as wallow in them. Anger and resentment are cumulative.”

— Jonathan Tropper

“We should all just face reality and stop taking our meals together.”

— Jonathan Tropper

I occasionally experience the discomfort of people assuming my work is autobiographical.

— Jonathan Tropper

I'm a big action junkie. I grew up on the '80s action movies - the bad ones and the good ones.

— Jonathan Tropper

“At some point you lose sight of your actual parents; you just see a basketful of history and unresolved issues.”

— Jonathan Tropper

There's something really satisfying if you've created a bunch of characters that have withstood 25 episodes.

— Jonathan Tropper

“I keep waiting for the universe to decide things for me, and the thing is, the universe has better things to do.”

— Jonathan Tropper

I wrote the screenplay for 'This Is Where I Leave You' - all 40 drafts of it.

— Jonathan Tropper

“I love Hailey and what we have works. Shes's beautiful, she's smart, she's a great mother, and she's heads above what I…

— Jonathan Tropper

“coming to the lonely conclusion that the only thing you can ever really know about anyone is that you don’t know anything…

— Jonathan Tropper

Screenwriting and the movie stuff could all disappear tomorrow, but to sit down with my laptop and still tell stories is my…

— Jonathan Tropper

“And there's a special place in shiva hell reserved for men in sandals, their cracked, hardened toenails, dark with fungus, proudly on…

— Jonathan Tropper

“He doesn't so much fall in love as dive-bomb it like a kamikaze pilot, fearless and at full throttle. He used to…

— Jonathan Tropper

There are some people out there who don't wait for what come next. They decide what should come next and they go…

— Jonathan Tropper

“Being gay is like taking a crash course in human nature,” he says. “Your first real glimpse at the dirty underbelly of…

— Jonathan Tropper

When I was sixteen, I wrote the first hundred or so pages of a novel about a piano that was haunted by…

— Jonathan Tropper

“She holds on to a rung of the ladder while I tread water a foot or so in front of her. After…

— Jonathan Tropper

“The women look each other over as they chat, measuring thighs, bellies, hips, and asses, taking into account body types and recent…

— Jonathan Tropper

“But we are not going to talk about that right now, because to talk about it I'll have to think about it,…

— Jonathan Tropper

“Our minds, unedited by guilt or shame, are not for public consumption, because they would either be hurtful or else just make…

— Jonathan Tropper

“If they’re letting her cry anyway, I don’t really see the point of the baby monitor, but that’s one of those questions…

— Jonathan Tropper

The whole purpose of screenwriting is to convey everything through action and dialogue and not explanation and exposition. To me, there are…

— Jonathan Tropper

“Please,” she says. “Tell me what you’re thinking.” It’s an absurd request. Our minds, unedited by guilt or shame, are selfish and…

— Jonathan Tropper

“The women look each other over as they chat, measuring thighs, bellies, hips, and asses, taking into account body types and recent…

— Jonathan Tropper

“Wendy taught me to curse, matched my clothing, brushed my hair before school, and let me sleep in bed with her when…

— Jonathan Tropper

Rowdy, hopped-up college kids pass us in an endless, noisy blur like they're being mass produced or squeezed out of a tube…

— Jonathan Tropper

“You remember the old Roadrunner cartoons, where the coyote would run off a cliff and keep going, until he looked down and…

— Jonathan Tropper

“That's the problem with college kids. I blame Hollywood for skewing their perspective. Life is just a big romantic comedy to them,…

— Jonathan Tropper

Obviously it's easier when I' m doing the adapting myself. But my feeling is, your potential upside far outweighs the downside. Ultimately,…

— Jonathan Tropper

“We read off the ancient Hebrew words, with no idea of what they might mean, and the congregation responds with more words…

— Jonathan Tropper

“The sky is fucking with me. It's one of those militantly perfect spring days, the kind that seems to be trying just…

— Jonathan Tropper

Sometimes you walk past a pretty girl on the street there's something beyond beauty in her face, something warm and smart and…

— Jonathan Tropper