“It's nothing really. It's the unique presentation that makes me look good in the action scenes. Why did I dare do them? That's a funny question! Why do I act? Why do I breathe!”

“"Why did you fail me? I didn't do nothing!" The reply, of course, is: "That's just it."”

Bel Kaufmanová book Up the Down Staircase

“I confess I do not know why, but looking at the stars always makes me dream.”

Vincent Van Gogh (1853–1890) Dutch post-Impressionist painter (1853-1890)

“Really, why am I doing this anymore? It makes me crazy. I hate getting up early in the morning, and I don't particularly like doing the show.”

Howard Stern (1954) American radio personality

“Why are people so cruel? What did I ever do to them?”

Julie Anne Peters (1952) American writer

“I hope I make people feel better. I hope I take people out of their situations a little bit and make them happier. That's really why I do what I do.”

Ellen DeGeneres (1958) American stand-up comedian, television host, and actress

“There are many things in this world I do not know. I do not know how butterflies get out of their cocoons without damaging their wings. I do not know why anyone would boil vegetables when roasting them is much tastier. I do not know how to make olive oil, and I do not know why dogs bark before an earthquake, and I do not know why some people voluntarily choose to climb mountains where it is freezing and difficult to breathe, or live in the suburbs, where the coffee is watery and all of the houses look alike.”

Daniel Handler book The Hostile Hospital

“She looked at me like I was crazy. Most of my lovers do, and that's partly why they love me, and partly why they leave”

Jeanette Winterson (1959) English writer

“She looked at me like I was crazy. Most of my lovers do, and that's partly why they love me, and partly why they leave”

Neal Stephenson (1959) American science fiction writer

“Why do they call me misanthrope? Because They hate me, not I them.”

George Gordon Byron Don Juan