Quotes About Provocative

Every man, deep down, knows he'a a piece of shit.

You couldn't hide that friendly giant from somebody rimming your butthole.

Talk about beauty and you get boring answers, but talk about ugliness and things get interesting.

Beauty and seriousness are perhaps the most shocking tactics left to artists these days.

How do I stay so healthy and boyishly handsome? It's simple. I drink the blood of young runaways.

Beauty will be convulsive or will not be at all.

Satan has been the best friend the Church has ever had, as He has kept it in business all these years!

The best way to behave is to misbehave.

I sometimes have birthday parties for the kids in my neighborhood and then pretend to suggest that I am going to molest them to the parents. It's a hilarious prank even though I am not a paedophile.

A good ad should be like a good sermon: It must not only comfort the afflicted, it also must afflict the comfortable.

I am in the poison gas business. Advertising should make you choke, make your eyes water, make you feel sick.

There is nothing that's off limits. If people think something is off limits, I make it my business to go make a joke about it; that's my job.

This Islam business kidnapped me.

Justin Bieber is a douche bag. Now that I have your attention, let's talk about cars.

If any job should give you a company car, it's the car bomb business.

Two books under my belt, some controversial journalism, a reputation for contentious provocative attention-seizing writing. I had something of a name. If feminism had been around then I'd have taken it up, I suppose; it would have needed me. As it was, I never felt its absence; being a woman seemed to me a valuable extra asset.

Yes, books are dangerous. They should be dangerous—they contain ideas.

Kept herself fastened up as tight as a Scotsman's wallet, in spite of the sexy clothes and all. It was strictly top only for me." "So she was a tease?

I don't shy from writing about incredibly unpleasant, distressing things. And I get a kick out of it I confess. I like doing that.

Slit my skull open. Know what it'll be like? Like slitting open the guts of a great white shark. Stuff'll come out like you wouldn't fucking believe.

People are unjust to anger — it can be enlivening and a lot of fun.

Don't tell me he's bisexual! Don't tell me this is more of the guy in the hallway! Don't tell me he wants us to have it off together, Philip Roth fucking Philip Roth! That, I'm afraid, is a form of masturbation too fancy even for me.

Il m'arrivait aussi, à l'occasion, d'être accosté dans les rues de New York par des inconnus qui se lançaient dans une rencontre orageuse avec moi à cause de quelque chose dans mes romans qui les séduisait ou qui les exaspérait, ou qui les séduisait parce que cela les exaspérait, ou qui les exaspérait parce que cela les séduisait.

None of the other famous phallocrats of Updike's generation—not Mailer, not Exley or Roth or even Bukowski—excites such violent dislike.