* To [[Franchise/TheHitchhikersGuideToTheGalaxy Arthur Dent]]: "Richardrichardmayhewdick".
* To ''Theatre/MacBeth'', in-universe: "Well, lead on, Macduff."
** “It’s ‘lay on, Macduff,’ actually. But I hadn’t the heart to correct him."
* To ''Theatre/TheMerchantOfVenice'', in-universe: "If you cut us, do we not bleed?"
* To ''[[Literature/AlicesAdventuresInWonderland Alice in Wonderland]]'': "...the exhaustion of someone who had managed, somehow, to believe several dozen impossible things in the last twenty-four hours, without ever getting a proper breakfast."
* To Agatha Christie: "And then there were none."
* To ''{{Literature/Neuromancer}}'': "The sky was the perfect untroubled blue of a television screen, tuned to a dead channel."
* To ''Literature/TheWonderfulWizardOfOz'': When Richard says Islington can tell him how to get home, Lamia replies, "And he can give you brains, and me a heart."