“I felt like a car that had only been operated by one driver… a car its new prospective buyer was determined to take to the Daytona 500.”

As quoted in "Profile: Yoshiro Mori" http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/702323.stm (20 November 2000), BBC News, United Kingdom: British Broadcasting Corporation.

Source: The Sellout

Thanksgiving (prologue)
Reamde (2011), Part I: Nine Dragons

Series 1 - Crime and Retribution (23 Nov 2016)
BBC Radio 4 - Dr John Cooper Clarke at the BBC (Nov 2016)

"Driving Home for Christmas"
Song lyrics, New Light Through Old Windows (1988)

Beast and Man: The Roots of Human Nature (1979). 172.
Context: "Cognition" cannot be "translated into circuitry." Learning and creativeness cannot be "defined as specific portions of the cognitive machinery." They cannot be because translating and defining are operations performed, not on the mean in any thinker's brain, but on language. Learning, knowing and so forth are words to describe the relation of a thinking subject (as a whole) to the things he thinks and talks about. Defining these words is clarifying their proper use, so as to get rid of whatever ambiguities and confusions dog them. Since these words describes functions of the whole thinking subject, they cannot be used to describe changes in "portions of the cognitive machinery" he uses to perform them. This would again be like saying that the carburetor had won the race, instead of the car of the driver. Carburators do not even know how to enter races, let alone win them. Winners need carburetors, and thinkers (including neurologists) need brain cells.

"River of Orchids.
Apple Venus Volume 1 (1999)

Source: The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul (1988), Ch. 12

Signposts to Elsewhere (2008)