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.

At the beginning of all growth, everything imitates.

Every book that is banned is a badge of honor.

I happen to be pretty productive when I am in jail. When you are in jail, you have to spend more time with yourself.

I don't write to give joy to readers but to give them a conscience.

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.

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.