You have a responsibility for the way you make the audience feel, and I want them to feel uncomfortable.

It's my belief that in public service, if you aren't making someone uncomfortable, you aren't doing your job.

it annoys me to see people comfortable when they ought to be uncomfortable; and I insist on making them think in order to bring them to conviction of sin. If you don't like my preaching you must lump it. I really cannot help it. In the preface to my Plays for Puritans I

[M]y question is, what are the ways that we might be erasing ourselves to make other people comfortable?... [W]e are so often asked to erase ourselves too, and to devote ourselves to making other people comfortable. Is there a way that making people uncomfortable could make all of us be more able to flourish?

I speak to issues that people would rather not talk about and it makes them very uncomfortable.

Anything great that you’re going to want to accomplish is going to involve fear and discomfort, and making other people uncomfortable,” she says. “But you have to go for it anyway. That’s how you make a difference.”

Discomfort is a part of the process.

Everything that I do seeks to improve the lives of the people in this country. Unfortunately, the methodology and the tactics to do that may make others uncomfortable.

Making Others Feel Comfortable.

you have to write toward your discomfort.

My mission is to suffer for all those who suffer without knowing it. I must pay for them, expiate their unconsciousness, their luck to be ignorant of how unhappy they are.

I'm afraid I'm being an awful nuisance.

I don't want to be a person. I want to be unbearable.

Chasing discomfort chains you to discomfort. The truth is: You cannot create a fulfilling life when you are uncomfortable.