Abortion is emotional and difficult to discuss.
Terrorism, as a whole, is - I don't want to say 'taboo,' but it is a very emotional subject.
Human reproduction can be a sticky subject—” “Ewww!” groaned a chorus of students
I have my idea of India... don't demean it.
I think that if I would talk on a political subject, if I talk about it, it would divide the audience on that issue. That's not my issue.
Ah, Feminism in the nineties, what a What is yours what is mine field.
Tiananmen Square is a sensitive topic because many things happened there. The idea of turning the plaza into a forest makes many people feel uncomfortable.
The AIDS is a disease that is hard to talk about.
The topic of slavery is like an electric fence. Touch it and people will react.
What do you say we lighten things up and talk about abortion?
When you're dealing with killing people and things that are upsetting, that can be a delicate place to occupy yourself for a day.
I'm just warning you here: Don't anybody ask about the president's religion! Don't even get close to going there. Don't do it. That is a forbidden area. You cannot even ask about it.
I'm not freakishly short. I had, on my show, used shortness as a joke subject; it didn't really bother me.
People pay attention to lyrics, and the race matter was delicate.
I read a bunch of books about Mengele because he was pretty sick. That was how 'Angel Of Death' came about. I know why people misinterpret it, just because we don't say Nazism is very bad. They get this knee-jerk reaction to it.
I don't mind being criticised, but hearing yourself described as the next James Blunt - that hurts.
Nothing is more personal, more individual, more important to women than the plank on abortion.
I'm not saying we're better or greater, or comparing us with Jesus Christ as a person, or God as a thing, or whatever it is. I just said what I said, and it was wrong, or it was taken wrong. And now it's all this.
Now, race is one of those topics in America that makes people extraordinarily uncomfortable. You bring it up at a dinner party or in a workplace environment, it is literally the conversational equivalent of touching the third rail.
The questions of traditional and redefined marriage are highly emotional and a difficult and sensitive topic. Living in the D.C. area and having gay friends and colleagues, I find the topic difficult to discuss and sometimes even difficult write about for fear that I will be judged.
I think 'Historian' is ultimately a positive record, but I was a little bit worried about taking people into a dark world. I tried to do it with as much care as possible, but it's not easy to ask people to think about death or loss or confusion.
It was stressful [to live as a child in a Sylvian Hills]. It's always been complicated, honestly... I do not really want to tell you, actually. It bothers me that you want me to tell this.
When you write a high-tech thriller, and then people in the defense establishment start calling you - people I can't name - you feel you've hit a nerve.
I didn't feel up to writing about 9/11. If I were to write about it, it would take me years.
But huge photographs of dead bodies are slightly different. I couldn't find much humor there.
