Even though no one admits it, writers are leaders in their communities.
It's proper that people have friends, friendships without self-interest. Without friends, life is too lonely.
Every award for me is important because it means a slap against militarism and fascism in Indonesia.
Painting is literature in colors. Literature is painting in language.
At the beginning of all growth, everything imitates.
Humankind is able to create new conditions, a new reality. We are not fated to swim forever among the realities that are here now. ... Everything that is worthwhile in human civilization has not only originated from but has been inspired by dreams, by imagination.