“You're getting too old for a stuffed animal. So we traded your bear for a toaster.”

“When you're seventeen and the only friend you have in town is a stuffed animal that doesn't even belong to you, I think it's safe to say your life is officially in the shitter.”

“We don’t like to think of ourselves as prey—it is a lessening thought—but the truth is that in our arrogance and so-called knowledge we forget that we are not unique. We are part of nature as much as other animals, and some animals—sharks, fever-bearing mosquitoes, wolves and bear, to name but a few—perceive us as a food source, a meat supply, and simply did not get the memo about how humans are superior.It can be shocking, humbling, painful, very edifying and sometimes downright fatal to run into such an animal.”

“We commonly say in the trade that the most dangerous animal in a zoo is Man.”

“We should all start to live before we get too old. Fear is stupid. So are regrets.”

“You're never too old to keep failing your children, are you? Why weren't we told this was a life sentence?”