Every book that is banned is a badge of honor.

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

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.

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

You must first of all think justly. Don’t sit in judgment over others when you don’t know the truth of the matter.

My words, my writing, my actions—these have never been for myself alone, either directly or indirectly. There is no such thing as an artist who creates art only for himself. That is masturbation.

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.

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

The love I knew was from books.

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

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

A genius. A criminal mastermind. A millionaire. And he is only twelve years old.

There is always room in my life for a unicorn.(i.e. fantasy)

We need never be bound by the limitations of our previous or current thinking, nor are we ever locked into being the person we used to be, or think we are.

Whatever the potential pitfalls, banks are increasingly enthusiastic about venture capital, particularly in new companies with strong prospects in fields like health care and technology.

Many stop short of a divine encounter because they are satisfied with good theology. The word of God is to lead us to the God of the word.

Characterization requires a constant back-and-forth between the exterior events of the story and the inner life of the character.

Geoengineering - the deliberate, large-scale manipulation of the earth's climate to offset global warming - is a nightmare fix for climate change.

Like Paul Kraston said, all I ask in life is a water bed, a TV and a typewriter. Well, I'll just have an ordinary bed, a TV and a guitar.

What I like best is a good story with a moral.

Men that cannot entertain themselves want somebody, though they care for nobody.