I don't follow any kind of 'isms.' If there is one, it will be Pram-ism.

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

Every good teaching may still end up producing evil bandits who have no principles whatsoever, an outcome even more likely when the teacher is also a bandit.

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

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