2 Quotes by Nigel Farndale

When was the last time you and Daniel laughed together?''I can't remember, Nancy said. It's like living with a stalker. He follows me from room to room. Sometimes he sits there staring at me. Do you know what I mean? There's that fine line that separates eye contact and the piercing stare of a psychopath. He often crosses it.

Do you know what I mean by the "God spot"?''Read something about it in Nature once. They did an experiment in which quasi-religious epiphanies were induced under laboratory conditions. Didn't they use nuns?' 'Carmelite nuns. But they were also able to produce these visions in non-believers. Basically they showed that there's a circuit of nerves in the brain which explains belief in God.