“Art is a serious matter”

“Translation is the art of failure.”

“I suspect that there is no serious scholar who doesn’t like to watch television. I’m just the only one who confesses”

“It is necessary to meditate early, and often, on the art of dying to succeed later in doing it properly just once.”

“For such is the fate of parody: it must never fear exaggerating. If it strikes home, it will only prefigure something that others will then do without a smile--and without a blush--in steadfast virile seriousness.”

“I was in a maze. No matter which way I turned, it was the wrong way.”

“Dios ha muerto, el arte dejó de existir, la historia ha llegado a su fin, y yo mismo no me siento del todo bien.”