Quotes by John Barth

• This is an exciting time. A new chapter in our history.
• You're certain to get a decision in a trial.
• The Bible is not man's word about God, but God's word about man.
• Nothing is intrinsically valuable; the value of everything is attributed to it, assigned to it from outside the thing itself, by people.
• Everyone is necessarily the hero of his own life story.
• If you are a novelist of a certain type of temperament, then what you really want to do is re-invent the world. God wasn't too bad a novelist, except he was a Realist.
• More history is made by secret handshakes than by battles, bills and proclamations.