Quotes About Provocation

I've been alienating my public since I was 20 years old. When 'American Buffalo' came out on Broadway, people would storm out and say, 'How dare he use that kind of language!' Of course I'm alienating the public! That's what they pay me for.

Don't forget that the only two things people read in a story are the first and last sentences. Give them blood in the eye on the first one.

I am strangely attracted to the hooligan crowd. I find them actually less dangerous than some of the people I work with now in Hollywood.

Fuck You's my name," I said. "But you can call me Mister Fuck You.

They also bombed their own headquarters—and blamed it on Catholics.

People can dislike you—and you often sell more by offending some—but they should never misunderstand you.

He referred to Pope Paul III as "His Hellishness." Were not the pope and his associates at least members of the church? Yes, as much as spit, snot, pus, feces, urine, stench, scab, smallpox, ulcers, and syphilis are members of the body. Luther was never one to mince words.

Be bad, and if you can't be bad be worse.

Not everybody knows that looking at people in 'a funny way' is the commonest cause of sudden murder. I happen to know that because I read a Home Office brochure once.

I had always previously really fed off of negativity and enjoyed being the guy who everybody hated.

I'm interested in offence and why people take offence in certain ways about certain things.

We don't deliberately set out to offend. Unless we feel it's justified.

Sometimes I'm convinced that one day I'm going to draw the cartoon that offends everyone, and that'll be the end.

With anything you put out there, you're going to offend somebody, but most people get that it's a joke, that I'm playing a character, and that I'm actually making fun of what I'm saying by saying it.

Every comic says things that are going to offend someone, so we all have to defend each other with this stuff.

I believe in absolute freedom of expression. Everyone has a right to offend and be offended.

You never know what people will choose to be offended by.

People take getting offended in L.A. to an art form.

I think the 'New York Times' would rather be offended than dead.

With my humor, I end up offending everybody!

Obviously Madonna reinforces everything absurd and offensive.

That's not to say that I don't find anything offensive.

Revenge is often like biting a dog because the dog bit you.

It's OK to burn a Bible, that's OK. OK to burn a flag, OK, that's all right. But just, you know, for heaven's sake, don't say anything that might offend someone of the Islamic religion.