He veered from hero to villain -- and both were untrue.

And the best sort of villain is smart and subtle and so very tricky that you don't even know he's the villain, because he thinks himself the hero in his own story.

There are only three types of citizenship: hero, villain, nobody.

Who is to say who is the villain and who is the hero? Probably the dictionary.

Am I still a hero if the only person I save is
myself?
Am I still a villain if the only person I hurt is
myself?

Heroic ambition seemed to have been the cause of much of the world's pain then - quite like it is now. No villain ever saw himself a villain: he only saw himself a hero; and this goes just as no hero ever saw himself a hero: he simply did what he had to do. No true hero initially sets out with intentions of being deemed a hero.