“The trouble with the rat race is that even if you win, you're still a rat.”

“You can win the rat race but you're still a rat.”

“Don't ever forget the words on a postcard that my father sent me last year: "If you win the rat race, you're still a rat.”

“If you join the rat race — you're in the race of rats.”

“Can't be part of the rat race when you're one of the rats who knows you're in a cage.”

“If a rat is a good model for your emotional life, you're in big trouble.”

“Think of lab rats racing through a maze, when you watch the sub-intelligent, dual-panel 'dialogue' … Each rat runs with a designated, neatly bifurcated (Republican or Democratic) political orthodoxy. Each is a 'maze-bright' rat, and not the possessor and giver of any truth.”

“Impoverished Paris Street Merchant (Jack Carter): Rats, rats for sale. Get your rats. Good for rat stew, rat soup, or the ever-popular ratatouille.”

“Rats in paradise! Rats in paradise!”

“It was a pleasure, Enna, Finn, tree rat."
"Did she just call you tree rat?”