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.

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

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

Every award for me is important because it means a slap against militarism and fascism in Indonesia.

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

Every book that is banned is a badge of honor.

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.