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

Even though no one admits it, writers are leaders in their communities.

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

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

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

Do not underestimate the human being, who sometimes appears so simple. Even with sight as sharp as an eagle, a mind as sharp as a razor, senses more powerful than gods, hearing that can catch the music and the lamentations of life, your knowledge of humanity will never be total.

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.