Quotes About Provocation

Say stupid shit. Barf out the fucking-around-o-maniacal schizo flow. Barter whatever for whoever wants to read it.

I want to give a really BAD party. I mean it. I want to give a party where there's a brawl and seductions and people going home with their feelings hurt and women passed out in the cabinet de toilette. You wait and see.

Is your underwear purple, too?

Do you believe in bobbed hair? asked G. Reece in the same undertone. I think it's unmoral, affirmed Bernice gravely. But, of course, you've either got to amuse people or feed'em or shock'em.

Yes—well they were having words and she tossed some sand in his face. So naturally he sat on top of her and rubbed her face in the sand. We were—electrified.

I want to give a party where there's a brawl and seductions and people going home with their feelings hurt and women passed out in the cabinet de toilette. You wait and see.

goddamn well dare the two of you to

Sólo faltaba que pudiésemos llamar obra de arte al urinario de Duchamp y nos prohibieran en nombre del buen gusto dar el mismo calificativo encomiástico a una faena de Curro Romero!

I use the grotesque the way I do because people are deaf and dumb and need help to see and hear.

Go back to hell where you came from, you old warthog

She would have been a good woman if there had been somebody to shoot her every day of her life.

I think I became a Catholic to annoy my father.

I have learned not to feed the trolls. I just don't respond.

Verbally, I'm quite fast on my feet. I could embarrass or anger most people if I wanted to.

I like anti-hero women. Negative female characters interest me.

I think good books have to make a few people angry.

Crime fiction is the new rock n' roll.

Fighters don't like Conor McGregor.

You can push my buttons all you want and say whatever you want about me, and that's fine... fighters do that.

I love fighting back. I love finding allies, and - famously - I enjoy making enemies.

We don't back down from controversy - we fan the fires. People think we go out of our way to create it, but we don't.

I've skewered whites, blacks, Hispanics, Christians, Jews, Muslims, gays, straights, rednecks, addicts, the elderly, and my wife. As a standup comic, it is my job to make sure the majority of people laugh, and I believe that comedy is the last true form of free speech.

I've never really been met with indifference, where they say, 'Who cares?' I think that's what good art is supposed to do. It's not supposed to make you feel good about your own prejudices and your own values; it's supposed to open you up in some way and get you outraged or make you happy or make you sad or whatever it's going to do.

My particular rule of thumb is to allow disruptors to let their flags fly. If they want to stage a stunt, who cares?