Top 120 Quotes by Dick Cavett

I live a sensible life. You know, I don't take on too much.

It's no fun being a specimen.

Every so often, there is an article saying the old kind of talk show isn't possible now. In the oldest kind of talk show, you only had the choice of that or two other channels!

Depression - 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.

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.

Perhaps the saddest irony of depression is that suicide happens when the patient gets a little better and can again function sufficiently.

In relative youth, we assume we'll remember everything. Someone should urge the young to think otherwise.

I don't see the future as bright, language-wise. I see it as a glass half empty - and evaporating quickly.

It'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.

A grown man, weeping, is a tough thing to see.