I was 15 when I first became deeply touched by the rhythm and structure of words.

As we make our way toward the finish line that some of us have already crossed, I never thought I'd get a Grammy Award. In fact, I was always touched by the modesty of their interest.

I was deeply in love with her, until she became herself and got to know me.

I'm very much aware in the writing of dialogue, or even in the narrative too, of a rhythm. There has to be a rhythm with it … Interviewers have said, you like jazz, don’t you? Because we can hear it in your writing. And I thought that was a compliment.

My brother Morris really started a lot of what Underwood's became. The first dining room opened in 1951, in Lubbock. Brownwood was the second place where we had a dining room.

I am deeply touched - not as deeply touched as you have been coming to this dinner, but nevertheless it is a sentimental occasion