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

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

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

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

“You're a coward, James.
You're running away from humanity.
You're running away from reality.
It won't be funny when they rat-a-tat-tat you down.”

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

“But there was more to it than that. As the Amazing Maurice said, it was just a story about people and rats. And the difficult part of it was deciding who the people were, and who were the rats.”

“Despite all my rage
I am still just a rat in the cage.”

“Fox the fox
Rat on the the rat
You can ape the ape
I know about that
There is one thing you must be sure of
I can't take any more
Darling, don't you monkey with the monkey.”