“We must be fair — fair, starting in our own minds.”

Novelist · 1925 – 2006

Indonesian novelist, author of the Buru Quartet, imprisoned for his writings and repeatedly nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature.

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Beauty is truth, truth beauty, — that is all ye know on earth, and all ye need to know.

Weakness and ignorance are not barriers to survival, but arrogance is.

The problem of the twentieth century is the problem of the color line.

It doesn't matter whether a cat is black or white, as long as it catches mice.

The wise know the worth of money, but the rich do not know the worth of knowledge.

History teaches us that men and nations behave wisely once they have exhausted all other alternatives.

I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library.

I have no enemies, and no hatred.