It's too bad we're not all teddy bears. More stuffing would only make us cuter and cuddlier.

Hey. My life’s not all about weird little creatures pretending to be teddy bears.” From Tribe of the Teddy Bear.

You belong with us, the lost of the lost, the tribe without a home, a tribe of orphans living our abandoned lives amid toys and trinkets, stuffed monkeys and bears. You’re one of us now—the Tribe of the Teddy Bear.” From Tribe of the Teddy Bear.

I have a good mind not to take Aloysius to Venice. I don't want him to meet a lot of horrid Italian bears and pick up bad habits.

But the most wonderful thing of all, our highest achievement and the one thing for which I pray we will always be remembered, is stuffing wads of polyester into an anatomically incorrect, cartoonish ideal of one of nature's most fearsome predators for no other reason than to soothe a child.

The Tanakee are thought to possess strange, almost supernatural powers.Their eyes are described as large and hypnotic.' From Tribe of the Teddy Bear.

If it could only be like this always – always summer, always alone, the fruit always ripe and Aloysius in a good temper...

A teddy bear will give you love.A grizzly bear will give you a mauling.Some bears aren't just the same.

I, um, I thought you might want this back.”I pull out the battered old teddy bear and hold it toward him. He frowns and shakes his head and doesn’t reach for it, and I feel like he’s punched me in the gut.Then my baby brother slaps that damned bear out of my hand and crushes his face against my chest, and beneath the odors of sweat and strong soap I can smell it, his smell, Sammy’s, my brother’s.

A god without wrath, without intimidation, without punishment, without hell? It would be a paper tiger, a teddy bear!