"He pushed himself, he pushed us, he made us better. One of the things that I think was very interesting about Peter is that he didn't graduate from high school, and this gave him a kind of insecurity that made him want to work harder, and learn more, ... He wrote like a dream. You would think that he was reading a script, and it was all ad-lib. He was an anchor in every true sense of the word." -
  --  Barbara walters