Jay Asher Quotes

Most people don't want to talk about politics and religion. They say, 'Let's talk about something else.'

We're kind of coached to stay away from touchy subjects just because of the arena that we're in.

There are three things I have learned never to discuss with people...religion, politics and the Great Pumpkin!

Stories about sensitive issues like sex, drugs or sexual assault, suicide and teen drinking, are often censored because people just don't want to talk about those things. It's not that these things don't happen, but when they're shared in a fictional setting, for some reason they make some people uncomfortable.

On sensitive issues, talk isn't cheap - it takes real courage to pry open topics nailed shut.

As far as I'm concerned, there is no subject that's off the table.

I don't do politics, I don't do religion, I don't do ethnic jokes.

The truth is I never think of any subject as taboo.

Well, I think any time you delve into this sort of religion, politics, as you well know, you're going to, you know, touch a few nerves. I wasn't - now - and this is the honest truth.

There is nothing we can't do. So it's just the fact that we're doing topics like that that other people, especially network TV, won't touch, that we're satirists.

There are certain things you don't discuss with Ansel, especially if you don't agree.

I've always been interested in exploring difficult subjects for the mainstream.

There's a couple things you don't talk about in life, and that's race, religion and politics. I try to make sure I don't talk about politics at all.

Working in any country where you want to talk about the kind of issues that other people don't want to talk about is difficult.

All of my books deal in a very rough, rude fashion with subjects about which there are great conflicts of opinion.

When I first started, you couldn't mention divorce or death. You couldn't show smelly socks. You couldn't show a snake. They took a skunk out of my strip one time.

We can't treat issues as taboo because we find them unpleasant.

Topics that are hard to talk about can be difficult for a lot of people, but it's important that we make sure we're addressing difficult topics/issues so it doesn't become the norm.

You'll never get me to speak religion. You'll never get me to speak politics.

People are always like, 'Did you purposely do something to make people uncomfortable?' And I say the reason why it's uncomfortable is because it's either something that we can't talk about or aren't supposed to talk about, and they're images that aren't ever seen.

I'd been brought up in a society which didn't talk about sex, food, money, religion or politics. Those things were all deemed slightly rude.

One of the missions of 'The Nightly Show' was to have a conversation with America in a sense, and talk about the things that people didn't want to talk about it.

I've never really thought in terms of taboos. I think that books can really help parents and kids talk together about difficult subjects. I've always felt that way.

Some delicate matters must be treated like pins, because if they are not seized by the right end, we get pricked.

One shouldn't talk of halters in the hanged man's house.