“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.”