Village Idiots

Honore de Balzac Novelist

"For passion, be it observed, brings insight with it; it can give a sort of intelligence to simpletons, fools, and idiots, especially during youth."

Gore Vidal Writer, Essayist, Playwright

"If Henry Miller often sounded like a village idiot, it is because, like Whitman, he was the rest of the village as well."