Dick Cavett

If your parents never had children, chances are you won__ either.

I think I have many spenglerian moods about the country, and that some day people will look back and think 'this was a really goofy, unadmirable stupid time.

Unpleasant reading on the subject of anger tells us that there's not really anything wrong with it. In limited amounts. It can even be a good thing. A pressure valve.

There is something about a Luger that separates it from all other handguns, and Luger devotees and Luger society members speak of it in romantic terms that must sound plain nuts to those who consider themselves level-headed.

When I was a kid in Nebraska, a cantankerous farmer, known for plinking with his '22 at passing cars in which he perceived enemies, ingeniously rigged up a shotgun in his house, trained on the inside of his front door so as to widely distribute any intruder.

To label me an intellectual is a misunderstanding of what that is.

I get a kick out of people saying I was funny.

I felt bad when George Bush was booed. But only briefly. My sympathy for that man has a half-life of about four seconds.

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

If your parents never had children, chances are you won't either.

William F. Buckley was a man who had a great capacity for fun and for amusing himself by amazing others.

I think we live in an age of increasing mediocrity.

The very phrase 'Oscar night' used to accelerate my pulse. For one thing - dating myself - it meant Bob Hope. He always had good, strong jokes, that faultless delivery, and always a new joke about his own films' failure - once again - to be honored.

I'm sure I've all but lost friends by maintaining that, despite their love for it, I always saw Stanley Kramer's 'It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World' as more of an exercise in anti-comedy than humor.

The emotions in all true anxiety dreams are next to unbearable.