Controversial Subjects Quotes

There is a list of things I'm not allowed to discuss at the dinner table! I am extraordinarily passionate about the Black Death, which is not something most people are into.

The old adage that polite conversation should not include talk of politics or religion is understandable because both subjects are so heavily laden with emotion that discussion can quickly turn to shouting. Blood is shed over politics, religion and the two in combination.

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

You can never talk religion on network TV. It makes too many people angry. You can talk about sex.

Things it is not polite to discuss at the dinner table: politics, religion, and the walking dead.

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.

If you go to a party populated by the NPR crowd and you start talking about JonBenet Ramsey, people will look at you as if you had forgotten your pants.

I learned early on, stay away from politics, stay away from religion and don't talk about sports. Those three right there will get you in trouble.

I write about what I know: teenage dating, overly charged sexuality, all the things that make you uncomfortable.

I want to talk about the things that people don't think you're allowed to talk about.

Aside from theology and sex there is really nothing to talk about.

What I do is try to stay away from the hot subjects.

A lot of networks don't want to touch controversial subjects, and especially stuff that deals with race and history.

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.

I'm interested in taboos for certain reasons. They can dramatise things and they're scary, and they're important to think about. I'm also wary about the fact that if you don't proceed with caution and understand what you're doing, you understand these things are realities that you're dealing with, they're real things.

I was worried that, as a college teacher, if I wrote too much about intergenerational sex my students would be creeped out.

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

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

Religious humor is not really my area, so I probably wouldn't do anything about that, or politics or something.

There are things that aren't supposed to be comfortable to read, because those situations shouldn't be comfortable to discuss, but they still need to be discussed.

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

I don't Tweet a lot because I've Tweeted things that I thought were really innocuous about subjects that are inflammatory, and the response is so insane sometimes from people.

I never consciously set out to talk about taboos or anything like that.

Those things [t hydraulic penises and prosthetic butts and all that] can be what's genuinely shocking about the movie [Swiss Army Man] because people wouldn't expect to be moved by any of it.

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.