"There must be order to balance chaos," he answered, almost bored. "Life cannot exist without both, in a balance that always shifts. There are astronomical and scientific facts. And there is how things actually seem. The two even sometimes coincide. You do what you do - and so do the planets and stars."

Then he tilted his head, frowning. "Why would anyone want that?"

... he may be a very picky eater, really. Not Jack's fault, of the fault of what he offered.