William F. Buckley was a man who had a great capacity for fun and for amusing himself by amazing others.
DICK CAVETTWilliam F. Buckley was a man who had a great capacity for fun and for amusing himself by amazing others.
DICK CAVETTI always wanted to live in a haunted house.
DICK CAVETTIn relative youth, we assume we’ll remember everything. Someone should urge the young to think otherwise.
DICK CAVETTThe greatest benefit of depression is the fact that when I have talked about it, every so often someone comes up and says, you saved my dad’s life.
DICK CAVETTI did standup while still working for Johnny Carson in the mid-’60s, thus gaining the advantage of at least getting laughs from him about how I hadn’t the night before.
DICK CAVETTThe authority of depression is horrifying. I felt like my brain was busted and that I could never feel good again. I really thought that I was never gonna heal.
DICK CAVETTTeaching is an art and a profession requiring years of training.
DICK CAVETTI would not ever try to be a show intellectual, which I was accused of doing a while on ABC. I thought you were supposed to read the guests’ books.
DICK CAVETTCensorship feeds the dirty mind more than the four-letter word itself.
DICK CAVETTIt was well after college that I learned about depression. I got my first job for Jack Paar. I realized I was sleeping 14 hours a day and just living for the Paar show.
DICK CAVETTI am always shocked that there are still a handful of defenders of the dubious practice of abstinence, surely the worst idea since chocolate-covered ants.
DICK CAVETTLawyers work hard and, like us, they’re human, many of them.
DICK CAVETTIt’s lamented that the youth get their news from Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert. It’s lamentable that they get more from them than from the news.
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 CAVETTEvery time I nostalgically try to regain my liking of John McCain, he reaches into his sleaze bag and pulls out something malodorous.
DICK CAVETTI’m not all that enthralled by show business, and I’m not that much of a highbrow.
DICK CAVETT