Delicate Topics Quotes

Genteel women suppose that those things do not really exist about which it is impossible to talk in polite company.

The two things you cannot do effectively on stage are pray and copulate.

I've spent my life navigating through sensitive issues. Not wanting to upset people.

Sometimes the most important conversations are the most difficult to engage in.

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

I think the silences we have on some issues are inductive of the fact that we need to write about them more, but I think there are some issues you have to write in a sensitive way and in a way that respects the reality of the situation. If you can't do that, you should leave them alone.

She didn't look at me and I didn't look at her. Some questions are so direct the only way to ask them is sideways.

Serious beliefs are awkward, especially religious ones. It's not that there's anything wrong with them, it's just that people's real, heart-felt, deeply held beliefs are, well, 'not easy to handle or deal with, requiring great skill, ingenuity, or care' - in a word, awkward.

The pains and pleasures of the body, howsoever important to ourselves, are an indelicate subject of conversation