"If I were asked for a one-sentence sound bite on religion, I would say I was against it." ― Salman Rushdie Topic(s): Diet Tags: asked More From Salman Rushdie "In this world without quiet corners, there can be no easy escapes from history, from hullabaloo, from terrible, unquiet fuss." "The idea of the sacred is quite simply one of the most conservative notions in any culture, because it seeks to turn other ideas – uncertainty, progress, change – into crimes." "A poet’s work is to name the unnameable, to point at frauds, to take sides, start arguments, shape the world, and stop it going to sleep." More In Diet "I am not naturally that thin, so I had to go through everything from using drugs to diet pills to laxatives to fasting. Those were my main ways of controlling my weight."― Carre Otis "As I mentioned previously, the tools that allow for optimum health are diet and exercise."― Bill Toomey "I don’t care how pumped up or psyched you are to start a new diet or a new program – that emotion will fade."― Phil McGraw