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I find "why would you want to know that?" terribly annoying, especially when it's in response to a question whose intent is reasonable and well expressed and deserves better than that kind of deflection. It seems to happen in an extremely kneejerk fashion though. Deflect, deflect, deflect! Before consideration is even given. I'd much prefer to hear something more honest like "let me think about how best to answer that" when that's what he actually needs to do.
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“We use our minds not to discover facts but to hide them. One of things the screen hides most effectively is the body, our own body, by which I mean, the ins and outs of it, its interiors. Like a veil thrown over the skin to secure its modesty, the screen partially removes from the mind the inner states of the body, those that constitute the flow of life as it wanders in the journey of each day.”
— Antonio R. Damasio, “The Feeling of What Happens: Body and Emotion in the Making of Consciousness” (p.28)
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