‘Incredible, delicate, funny, dramatic human being’

Winkler describes how he saw Williams before his loss:

This incredible, delicate, funny, dramatic human being is gone.

His reaction to Williams’s performances:

My only job was to keep a straight face and it was impossible because no matter that you said to him – no matter what line you gave to him, he took it in, processed it and then it flew out of his mouth, never the same way twice… You knew, Oh boy, you’re witnessing the beginning of something unbelievably special. He was electric — electrifying – and he was like, that no matter what he did, all the time…No matter what he did,  he was that…It was just an amazing thing to witness.