He was something between an epitome and a parody.

-Isaacson,Walter Seff
 On Harvard Professor William Elliott, Kissinger's mentor. Kissinger:  A Biography.

Satire is a lesson, parody is a game.

-Nabokov,Vladimir
  Interview in Wisconsin Studies in Contemporary Literature, Spring.

Sencillamente se me ocurre que la parodia se ha desplazado y hoy invade los gestos, las acciones. Donde antes hab|¤a acontecimientos, experiencias, pasiones, hoy quedan so¤  lo parodias. Eso trataba a veces de decirle a Marcelo en mis cartas: que la parodia ha sustitutido por completo a la historia. It's simply that I believe that parody has been displaced and that it now invades all gestures and actions.Where there used to be events, experiences, passions, now there are nothing but parodies. This is what I tried to tell Marcelo so many times in my letters: that parody had completely replaced history.

-Piglia, Ricardo
  Respiracio¤  n artificial, pt.2, ch.4 (translated as Artificial Respiration,1994).