“A village somewhere was missing it's idiot.”
“Somewhere out there was a village I'd deprived of it's 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.”
“Sensing this man had issued a challenge, Rose was not about to be outdone by a village idiot.”