Borisando Sayoga

“Perempuan adalah bubu yang bila sudah dipasang hanya bisa menunggu ikan masuk. Selamanya bubu tak akan mengejar ikan atau memaksanya masuk ke dalam.”
― Ahmad Tohari, Ronggeng Dukuh Paruk

“Man can will nothing unless he has first understood that he must count on no one but himself; that he is alone, abandoned on earth in the midst of his infinite responsibilities, without help, with no other aim than the one he sets himself, with no other destiny than the one he forges for himself on this earth.”
― Jean-Paul Sartre

“I felt like crying but nothing came out. it was just a sort of sad sickness, sick sad, when you can't feel any worse. I think you know it. I think everybody knows it now and then. but I think I have known it pretty often, too often.”
― Charles Bukowski, Tales of Ordinary Madness

“Tertawalah selagi ada peluang, meski hanya sejenak.”
― Ahmad Tohari, Bekisar Merah