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. ”