“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.”

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

“i think that i was a rat in rat wheel in my previous life... can not forget the habit”

“That is what they say I said when they found me in the blackness after three hours; found me crouching in the blackness over the plump, half-eaten body of Capt. Norrys, with my own cat leaping and tearing at my throat....When I speak of poor Norrys they accuse me of a hideous thing, but they must know that I did not do it. They must know it was the rats; the slithering, scurrying rats whose scampering will never let me sleep; the daemon rats that race behind the padding in this room and beckon me down to greater horrors than I have ever known; the rats they can never hear; the rats, the rats in the walls.”