Dick Cavett

Depression - it falls into that small category of things like combat that, if you haven't been in it, you can say…

— Dick Cavett

Obviously those who burn to be professional jesters mean that they want to be successful comedians. And those are always an elite,…

— Dick Cavett

An effective speaker can do more damage or more good in a well-stated minute than an angry klutz could do in half…

— Dick Cavett

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

— Dick Cavett

Commercials are not the only exposure that obesity gets on TV. It is by no means a rarity on the wonderful Judge…

— Dick Cavett

I have a disturbing problem with losing things. My vulnerability to loss-distress could properly be labeled not only inordinate, but neurotic.

— Dick Cavett

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

— Dick Cavett

I haven't ever found any great writing on that wonderful and often unappreciated art form, the insult.

— Dick Cavett

“I think I have many spenglerian moods about the country, and that some day people will look back and think 'this was…

— Dick Cavett

Show people tend to treat their finances like their dentistry. They assume the man handling it knows what he is doing.

— Dick Cavett

Once I left out what I then considered my best line because there was a suspected column rat in the house.

— Dick Cavett

The authority of depression is horrifying. I felt like my brain was busted and that I could never feel good again. I…

— Dick Cavett

Greatly talented performers don't know - often spectacularly - what's best for them, don't know what their talents really are, and don't…

— Dick Cavett

It's fun for me to go on other folks' talk shows. When you've endured the ups and downs and tensions and pitfalls…

— Dick Cavett