Dick Cavett

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? ”

There are online forms you can fill out to send to your lawmakers, demanding that nothing - nothing at all or in any way - be done about any guns whatever, anywhere. ”

Electronic devices dislike me. There is never a day when something isn't ailing. ”

Commercials are not the only exposure that obesity gets on TV. It is by no means a rarity on the wonderful Judge Judy's show when both plaintiff and accused all but literally fill the screen. ”

Radio, which was a much better medium than television will ever be, was easy and pleasant to listen to. Your mind filled automatically with images. ”

The sudden death at 51 of James Gandolfini is intolerable. ”

The brain process that results in a joke materializing where no joke was before remains a mystery. I'm not aware of any scholarly, scientific or neurological studies on the subject. ”

Every writer knows that unless you were born gifted with either supreme confidence or outsize ego, handing in your work holds, in some cases, admitted terror. If that's too strong, at least fairly high anxiety. ”

Lawyers work hard and, like us, they're human, many of them. ”