Peter Matthiessen

"The ancient intuition that all matter, all “reality,” is energy, that all phenomena, including time and space, are mere crystallizations of mind, is an idea with which few physicists have quarreled si…"

"When we are mired in the relative world, never lifting our gaze to the mystery, our life is stunted, incomplete; we are filled with yearning for that paradise that is lost when, as young children, we …"

"Peter Matthiesse, The Art of Fiction No. 157" interview by Howard Norman, in The Paris Review"

"Remembering writer Peter Matthiessen", PBS News Hour"

"Time Passes , a film portrait of Peter Matthiessen by Pat van Boeckel broadcast in the Netherlands by the Buddhist Broadcasting Foundation"

"Many great writers inspired me, of course, but inspiration is not the same as a direct influence. I was often stirred by the beauty of great prose, the passion and startling intensity of hard-won trut…"

"Interviewed on The Charlie Rose Show"

"The progress of the sciences toward theories of fundamental unity, cosmic symmetry — how do such theories differ, in the end, from that unity which Plato called “unspeakable” and “indiscribable,” the …"