“Nothing like being scolded by a hippie.”

“Scolding must be very, very fun, otherwise children would be allowed to do it. It is not because children don’t have what it takes to scold. You need only three things, really. You need time, to think up scolding things to say. You need effort, to put these scolding things in a good order, so that the scolding can be more and more insulting to the person being scolded. And you need chutzpah, which is a word for the sort of show-offy courage it takes to stand in front of someone and give them a good scolding, particularly if they are exhausted and sore and not in the mood to hear it.”

“Zeus looked like a really buff, really angry hippie.”

“A hippie is someone who looks like Tarzan, walks like Jane and smells like Cheetah.”

“I like to praise and reward in a loud voice and to scold in a whisper.”

“The children are performing their wickedness. Hot ovens are being prepared. Come. Help us. ...the voice attempted to correct my interpretation. It scolded, 'Be not children--be child beings.”