What qualities do your heroes have?

What qualities do your heroes have?

I like heroes who are generous. It always saddens me when you find a great artist who is also a son of a..., because it seems naive to say so, but you always expect a hero who's capable of great art or great achievement to have the insight to know how to deal with other people properly and be generous. You read of Dickens beating his wife, you think, "how could someone who exposes the folly, vanity, wickedness and weakness of others so brilliantly, not be more generous and behave better? How bizarre. If he was a character in his own book he would hate himself. How can that be? Why can Wagner be such a great artist? He produced the most perfect art of the nineteenth century, but he was a pig". It's really annoying to me, that.