Jonathan Tropper

Everyone always wants to know how you can tell when it's true love, and the answer is this: when the pain doesn't…

— Jonathan Tropper

“And I just want to tell you, at some point it doesn’t matter who was right and who was wrong. At some…

— Jonathan Tropper

“...but that's one of the questions I've learned not to ask, because I'll get that condescending look all parents reserve for non-parents,…

— Jonathan Tropper

“It’s hard to imagine your heart simply stopping, but at the same time, it’s hard to believe that it didn’t give up…

— Jonathan Tropper

“I don't have a career, I don't have a family, and I don't know what to do next. I've been so determined…

— Jonathan Tropper

On any serialized show, you're going to have through-lines that take you through the season, and you're going to have individual arcs…

— Jonathan Tropper

“...she'll cry, and if she does, I probably will, and then she'll have found a way in, and I will not let…

— Jonathan Tropper

Things have been a mess for so many years that trying to pin down a starting point is like trying to figure…

— Jonathan Tropper

You're terrified of being alone. Anything you do now will be motivated by that fear. You have to stop worrying about finding…

— Jonathan Tropper

Whether I'm writing a novel about a guy mourning the death of his father or whether I'm writing a show about people…

— Jonathan Tropper

“Dad didn’t believe in God, but he was a lifelong member of the Church of Shit or Get Off the Can. So…

— Jonathan Tropper

“I could report the rest of the conversation, but it's just more of the same, two people whose love became toxic, lobbing…

— Jonathan Tropper

Novel writing, to me, is all about language: choosing your words, finding the characters within the words and just really agonizing over…

— Jonathan Tropper

“The cop looks annoyed, like we’re giving him a headache. I want to explain everything to him, show him that it’s really…

— Jonathan Tropper

I still enjoy the tactile sensation of holding a book. But when I need to read fast for work, I use the…

— Jonathan Tropper

“If you're eating an ice cream cone, it's just very hard to believe that things have gone completely to shit. That there…

— Jonathan Tropper

You can sit up here, feeling above it all while knowing you’re not, coming to the lonely conclusion that the only thing…

— Jonathan Tropper

Phillip is the Paul McCartney of our family: better-looking than the rest of us, always facing a different direction in pictures, and…

— Jonathan Tropper

“Being an official divorce brought late-night channel-surfing up to a staggering new level of depressing. I just wanted to belong to someone…

— Jonathan Tropper

When I'm writing novels, even screenplays, it's never an actor I have in mind; it's always the version in my head of…

— Jonathan Tropper

And even if you didn't fall in love in the eighties, in your mind it will feel like the eighties, all innocent…

— Jonathan Tropper

You have to look at what you have right in front of you, at what it could be, and stop measuring it…

— Jonathan Tropper