unintentional behavior Quotes

Of course, like anybody I repeat myself endlessly, but I don't know that I'm doing it, usually.

I didn't intend. The word "intend" is the wrong word for what I do. It's just that it's something you do, and you can't not do. If you want to do it, and you don't intend to, you do it anyway. The word "intend" is wrong. The word "pressure" is right. It's like any art form.

I'm not always a rat. Sometimes it just comes out.

In a restaurant one is both observed and unobserved. Joy and sorrow can be displayed and observed "unwittingly," the writer scowling naively and the diners wondering, What the hell is he doing?

The first cause worked automatically like a somnambulist, and not reflectively like a sage.

They don't know it, but they are doing it.

There's stuff that everybody does that they don't know they do.

She sleepwalked from moment to moment, and whole months slipped by without memory, without bearing the faintest imprint of her conscious will.

I don't think about one trick or the other, they just happen.