Quotes About Provocation

Art is difficult. It's not entertainment.

For a quick second, when he met my eyes, I knew what he was thinking, too. Malcolm, the troublemaker. Malcolm, the one who won't toe the line. Looking in his eyes—a thing I maybe never did before—it speared me.

Anger is never without an argument, but seldom with a good one.

I don't want to produce a work of art that the public can sit and suck aesthetically. I want to give them a blow in the small of the back, to scorch their indifference, to startle them out of their complacency.

My play opens with an actor walking down into the audience, where he strangles the critic, then reads aloud from a little black book all the humiliations he has noted therein. Then he throws up on the audience, after which he exits and puts a bullet through his head.

My your balls wither away and you develop and allergy to Viagra and all it's counter-parts (Sophie to Royd)

come and get it, you dumbass

Erotica is using a feather; pornograpy is using the whole chicken.

Just give her your goddamn window seat, for the love of Christ, she's a stone cold fox, whispered the little red devil that always wants to get laid from his perch just behind my left ear.

I believe in low theory in popular places, in the small, the inconsequential, the antimonumental, the micro, the irrelevant; I believe in making a difference by thinking little thoughts and sharing them widely. I seek to provoke, annoy, bother, irritate, and amuse; I am chasing small projects, micropolitics, hunches, whims, fancies.

This is the history of un-art—the cultural productions that are not intended to convey beauty, not organized around the notion of singular genius expres- sion, not designed to sooth audiences and to confirm the order of things. Un-art comes to unmake worlds.

Rita looked as though she would have liked nothing better than to seize the paper umbrella sticking out of Hermione's drink and thrust it up her nose.

A good story should provoke discussion, debate, argument...and the occasional bar fight.

I warn you, if you bore me, I shall take my revenge.

I think some people deserve to get their asses kicked

Then I guess this is Donovan versus Davis. See you here tomorrow at six. Don't forget your thong and your flogging thingy.

I want to be there to remind them I haven't got a tongue to stick into the cheek I haven't got either.

Dorn shook out his shoulders, and raised his sword and shield. 'Try me,' he said. They rushed him.

no wonder i let queers suck my cock

nah-nah-nah boo-boo on you.

When you are The Other, you begin to resent the majority and look for ways to piss them

Increase the pain input, increase the swearing output. Makes sense.

Take off your boots, please." He set his feet apart and brought his hands to his hips. He let his gaze slide over her with deliberate slowness, not assessing this time, but going for a blatantly male vibe. He clearly couldn't believe he hadn't shut her up yet, and he was now switching to a different tactic. "What else do you want me to take off?

Science fiction is the agent provocateur of literature.