Let us see whether it is the New Order or me who will be the loser before Indonesian history. I have won. The New Order has fallen and my writings have been translated into 40 languages.

Life can give everything to whoever tries to understand and is willing to receive new knowledge.

An educated person must learn to act justly, beginning, first of all, with his thoughts, then later in his deeds. That is what it means to be educated.

It's proper that people have friends, friendships without self-interest. Without friends, life is too lonely.

You must first of all think justly. Don’t sit in judgment over others when you don’t know the truth of the matter.

My words, my writing, my actions—these have never been for myself alone, either directly or indirectly. There is no such thing as an artist who creates art only for himself. That is masturbation.

Painting is literature in colors. Literature is painting in language.

The love I knew was from books.

Every book that is banned is a badge of honor.

I'll do as I please. My mind is not to be imprisoned.

The fracture of pencil still useful, but the fracture of soul, we couldn't use it, Mister.

I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library.

Gold has its uses, but war is won with iron.

Success is best when it is shared.

Some of football's gaudiest displays of manliness are purely aesthetic. It's not what players do, it's how they look doing it.

It was a great time to be born, because I got to have my own publishing company right from the beginning, so I made more money than somebody would have doing what I did ten or fifteen years before.

If you will change, things will change for you.

The universe is just a big Xerox machine. It simply produces copies of your thoughts.

They who most loudly clamour for liberty do not most liberally grant it.

The expression "from above" is for us only a way of speaking. Many receive from above the command for action - we call it intuition.

Content's a kingdom, and I wear that crown.