Dick Cavett

It's a tribute to the human brain that anyone is able to function out there on television in a talk situation that is entirely artificial.

It was at a vividly bad time in Norman Mailer's life that I met him, and a sort of water-treading time in mine. He had stabbed his wife, and I was a copy boy at Time magazine.

To call New York's traffic at holiday time a nightmare is to understate.

You have to be on TV a surprisingly long time before you're stopped on the street. Then, when you are, you get a lot of, 'Hey, you're great! What's your name again?'

Every comic can report a few 'gift from the gods' moments.

Every time I nostalgically try to regain my liking of John McCain, he reaches into his sleaze bag and pulls out something malodorous.

I think we live in an age of increasing mediocrity.

Every time someone says, 'You know, we really ought to get together,' if I were really honest, I would ask 'Why?'

By the time I was in the fourth grade, I sounded exactly like my father on the phone.

It's not always easy to identify your own voice. It comes with time.

The Nixon administration kept a nasty eye on our show... Cops would come by - often just in time to see the act they wanted to see.

Can you picture yourself at the age 60 doing what you do now?