„Sorry. Was it awful?”“Being a rat? No. First it was disorienting. I was suddenly at ankle-level with everyone. I thought I’d drunk a shrinking potion, but I couldn’t figure out why I had this urge to chew used gum wrappers.“

— Cassandra Clare
„Found something?”“No, sorry. I thought I had, but, no, it turned out to be, uh… more floor.“
— Derek Landy
„Television is chewing gum for the eyes.“
— Frank Lloyd Wright
„I suppose this was the first time I had ever felt an urge not to be. Never an urge to die, far less an urge to put an end to myself - simply an urge not to be. This disgusting, hostile and unlovely world was not made for me, nor I for it.“
— Stephen Fry
„I wanted to stop all that because I couldn't stand hearing my little kid ask why I didn't stay home. I had been living at the Hawthorne Inn for fourteen months… If it wasn't for him, I'd have said, To hell with you fellows. We'll shoot it out.“
— Al Capone
„I'd been painting rats for three years before someone said 'that's a clever anagram of art' and I had to pretend I'd known that all along.“
— Banksy
„I suppose I really seemed mad, then; but it was only through the awfulness of having said nothing but the truth, and being thought to be deluded.“
— Sarah Waters