“Somewhere out there was a village I'd deprived of it's idiot.”
“A village somewhere was missing it's idiot.”
“I'd be at work where poeple respected my opinions, said Nick. And then, I'd come home and it was like I was the village idiot.”
“If Henry Miller often sounded like a village idiot, it is because, like Whitman, he was the rest of the village as well.”
“What do they do for a village idiot when you're here?”
“You're an idealist, and I pity you as I would the village idiot.”