Quotes About Provocation

I am that gadfly which God has attached to the state, and all day long and in all places am always fastening upon you, arousing and persuading and reproaching you.

In the land of God's and Monsters, I was an angel looking to get f-ked hard.

I want to kiss God on His nose and watch Him sneeze and so do you. Not out of disrespect. Out of pique. Out of a man-to-man thing.

For God's sake, all of you, say spiteful things about me, then I shall know I mean something to you. Don't say surgaries, or I'm done.

Be quiet, or I swear to God I'll take you right here

Yevgeny Yevtushenko: 'You atheist?'"Kingsley Amis: 'Well, yes, but it's more that I hate him.

My best moment? I have a lot of good moments but the one I prefer is when I kicked the hooligan.

All good art is an indiscretion.

A good artist's always got his hand in his zipper.

I think it's good when people don't write good things about your work. I mean, what a great compliment it is to be called a charlatan.

Something must be wrong with me to stop a good girl-on-girl fight

What is indispensable to inspiration? ...sound sleep and the provocation of a good book or a companion.

You would do well to know, Marcus, that irritating a better swordsman than yourself is a good way to end up dead.

We can all be good when we have no temptation or provocation to the contrary.

I got a letter from the government the other day I opened and read it...it said they were suckers.

But we don't have to react. That's what I'm saying. A police force, like a government, should be above that. Just because we're provoked doesn't mean we have to act. -- Still Life

Mrs. Robinson, you're trying to seduce me... aren't you?

All great truths begin as blasphemies.

Great writers arrive among us like new diseases - threatening, powerful, impatient for patients to pick up their virus, irresistible.

The greatest danger of a terrorist's bomb is in the explosion of stupidity that it provokes.

If I spit, they will take my spit and frame it as great art.

Literature bores me, especially great literature

All really great artists, Jackson Pollack, John Cage, Beckett or Joyce - you are never indifferent to them.

Just to stir things up seemed a great reward in itself.