“Cowboy: New York hood talk means kill the mother fucker wherever you find him. A rat is a rat is a rat is a rat. Is an informer.”
“If you join the rat race — you're in the race of rats.”
“Rats. Rats, mice, and rodents.”
“Did you bring me a rat?""He has no time for rats, George.""No time for rats? That's just sad.”
“The trouble with being in the rat race is that even if you win, you're still a rat.”
“We must be as stealthy as rats in the wainscoting of their society. It was easier in the old days, of course, and society had more rats when the rules were looser, just as old wooden buildings have more rats than concrete buildings. But there are rats in the building now as well. Now that society is all ferrocrete and stainless steel there are fewer gaps in the joints. It takes a very smart rat indeed to find these openings. Only a stainless steel rat can be at home in this environment...”