Mortal Bodies and Immortal Minds - Across the Pond: An Englishman's View of America - page 54

The closest thing to not needing anything, which is the enviable condition of God, is not
needing something but needing everything.
Desire does not rest easy with the present and particular, since there is an endless future
to be won. Capitalism has worked wonders, as Karl Marx never ceased to insist, but there
is one achievement that must forever elude it: the ability, as D. H. Lawrence put it, “to live
on the spot where we are.” Will or desire is radically homeless. The manic will of Captain
Ahab in Moby-Dick is an utterly unearthly force. Like all infinite things, it is terrifying and
annihilating. It can come to rest only in the unattainable Otherness which the white whale
signifies. And to do so it will clamber over the whole of Creation.