“Hero is a misnomer. India is the only place left in the world where we call our stars heroes and heroines.”

“Unlike storybook heroes and heroines but like many actual heroes and heroines, she was something of a social outcast. (As Simone Weil noted, it was the people with irregular and embarrassing histories who were often the heroes of the Resistance in the Second World War; the proper middle-class people may have felt they had too much to lose.)”

“I can't imagine a romance novel published today where the hero rapes the heroine and she falls in love with him.”

“There's no excuse for the young people not knowing who the heroes and heroines are or were”

“It is very difficult to be a hero without an audience, although, in a sense, we are each the hero of a peculiar, half-ruined film called our life.”

“Aren't most romance heros, or heros in fiction of any kind, generally superior to real men? Same goes for heroines and real women.”

“Most of those we call heroes only did what they had to do.”

“Our Lord Jesus Christ, my brethren, is our hero, a hero all the world wants.”

“We all like to believe that our world has clear heroes and villains and that the heroes are going to save us after all, but that’s not the reality.”

“No man, and only one hero, had been called invincible before him, and then only by a poet, but the hero was Heracles, ancestor of the Macedonian kings.”