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 CAVETTI’ll be happy if I can just stay out of Nebraska.
DICK CAVETTThe trick to writing for people is, you have to be able to turn them on in your head. And know how they’d word something or how they’d inflect it.
DICK CAVETTYou can, after all, reduce the reasons for watching TV to but two: to be lulled, and to be stimulated. Some people do one sometimes, the other sometimes. Some people do all of one or all of the other.
DICK CAVETTThere’s so much comedy on television. Does that cause comedy in the streets?
DICK CAVETTTo label me an intellectual is a misunderstanding of what that is.
DICK CAVETTThe 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.
DICK CAVETTIt’s not always easy to identify your own voice. It comes with time.
DICK CAVETTI’m the only talk show host, I think, if there’s such a category in, what’s called, the book of records, to have a guest die while we were taping the show, yeah.
DICK CAVETTWilliam F. Buckley was a man who had a great capacity for fun and for amusing himself by amazing others.
DICK CAVETTI’m not freakishly short. I had, on my show, used shortness as a joke subject; it didn’t really bother me.
DICK CAVETTMusic bypasses the brain and goes straight to the heart. I wish my life had more of it.
DICK CAVETTDepression – it falls into that small category of things like combat that, if you haven’t been in it, you can say you can imagine it all you like. But it’s truly different.
DICK CAVETTIn relative youth, we assume we’ll remember everything. Someone should urge the young to think otherwise.
DICK CAVETTJust think of all the billions of coincidences that don’t happen.
DICK CAVETTA grown man, weeping, is a tough thing to see.
DICK CAVETT