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.

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.

Every book that is banned is a badge of honor.

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

I will not close my eyes, neither those in my head nor those in my soul, as the ship carries me away, along with my future, my dreams, and my beliefs. Buru Island is no happy land somewhere; it's but a way station on my journey in life—though to believe even that much will require no small measure of hope.

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

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