Tom Reiss

Quotes

• “The demons you have are what motivate you to make your art. This is what drives the detective, this is what drives the p...”
• “Today, the world is so awash in sugar - it is such a staple of the modern diet, associated with all that is cheap and un...”
• “Alex Dumas was a consummate warrior and a man of great conviction and moral courage. He was renowned for his strength, h...”
• “Eighteenth-century doctors prescribed sugar pills for nearly everything: heart problems, headache, consumption, labor pa...”
• “In the winter of 1940, 'The Atlantic Monthly' invited Peter Viereck, a twenty-three-year-old Harvard graduate who had wo...”
• “-I'm going to heaven! I replied.-What do you mean, you're going to heaven?-Let me pass.-And what will you do in heaven, ...”