Satire is a lesson, parody is a game. Vladimir Nabokov
Self-parody is the first portent of age. Larry McMurtry
Parody is homage gone sour. Brendan Gill
The parody is the last refuge of the frustrated writer. Parodies are what you write when you are associate editor of the Harvard Lampoon. The greater the work of literature, the easier the parody. The step up from writing parodies is writing on the wall above the urinal. Ernest Hemingway
You can parody and make fun of almost anything, but that does not turn the universe into a caricature. Bernard Berenson