I don’t see the future as bright, language-wise. I see it as a glass half empty – and evaporating quickly.
DICK CAVETTI don’t see the future as bright, language-wise. I see it as a glass half empty – and evaporating quickly.
DICK CAVETTTo label me an intellectual is a misunderstanding of what that is.
DICK CAVETTThe mob became unruly and the police were forced to resort to sex.
DICK CAVETTSloppy language leads to sloppy thought, and sloppy thought to sloppy legislation.
DICK CAVETTYou would have to be naive to think you can appear on television and not have the material edited in some way.
DICK CAVETTIn the main, ghosts are said to be forlorn and generally miserable, if not downright depressed. The jolly ghost is rare.
DICK CAVETTI find most ‘sacred music’ pretty dismal.
DICK CAVETTI don’t feel old. I feel like a young man that has something wrong with him.
DICK CAVETTA biggest mistake I made when I started doing a talk show was I thought you had to read the books.
DICK CAVETTComedians are sometimes resentful of their writers. Probably because it’s hard for giant egos to admit you need anyone but yourself to be what you are.
DICK CAVETTOnce I left out what I then considered my best line because there was a suspected column rat in the house.
DICK CAVETTElectronic devices dislike me. There is never a day when something isn’t ailing.
DICK CAVETTIn relative youth, we assume we’ll remember everything. Someone should urge the young to think otherwise.
DICK CAVETTIts fun for me to go on other folks talk shows. When youve endured the ups and downs and tensions and pitfalls of hosting, being a guest is a piece of angel food.
DICK CAVETTPerhaps the saddest irony of depression is that suicide happens when the patient gets a little better and can again function sufficiently.
DICK CAVETTIt’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.
DICK CAVETT