" 'Why oh why...?' Well, why not?
Why not? "Well, why?" he asked.
Why do writers drink – well, why does anyone?
There was no asking "Why me?" Richard knew very well why.
If you have the capabilities, why not use them?" Well, why not?
— Why? — Because they live in New York and I live in Montreal, and… — Why? — Why? Why… Hmm… Well, because I have a full-time job at a university there, in Montreal, and it's a good job, a professor's job, and so I… — Why? — Well, because I was hired to do that job by the university I just mentioned.
This helps to explain why Karl Ove Knausgaard sells so well, why so many characters in TV dramas and popular fiction have OCD (see Hannah in Girls, JK Rowling's The Casual Vacancy, Monk) and why, eight years after the slogan was first popularised, people still drink out of Keep Calm and Carry On mugs.
Why did it take so long?" Well, why do you think?
Rather than ask "why me?" the real question is, well, why not me?
"I think Brazilians want to know why things have not turned out well, why Brazil hasn't worked," said Eduardo Bueno, the author of three recent books on early Brazilian history that have sold more than 500,000 copies.
