Quotes from Dick Cavett

Censorship feeds the dirty mind more than the four-letter word itself.

The 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.

Radio, which was a much better medium than television will ever be, was easy and pleasant to listen to. Your mind filled automatically with images.

Comedians 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.

If I were running a campaign, I'd urge taking the mountain of money reportedly squandered on pizza, coffee and bagels and spending it more wisely - on a talented young comedy writer.

If you have a relative who's lost interest in everything and doesn't get out of bed, who doesn't care for things they used to, can't imagine anything that would give them any pleasure, don't fool around with it; get therapy, get help, get medication if that's right for you, or talk therapy, or something.

Anything seen on TV is, in a subtle and sinister sense, thereby endorsed.

I like when the ice gets thin, the going gets rough, the guests get edgy.

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

It was at a vividly bad time in Norman Mailer's life that I met him, and a sort of water-treading time in mine. He had stabbed his wife, and I was a copy boy at Time magazine.

In the main, ghosts are said to be forlorn and generally miserable, if not downright depressed. The jolly ghost is rare.

Commercials are not the only exposure that obesity gets on TV. It is by no means a rarity on the wonderful Judge Judy's show when both plaintiff and accused all but literally fill the screen.

Once I left out what I then considered my best line because there was a suspected column rat in the house.

I've actually gotten so I don't associate television with entertainment very much.

I know what it feels like to be a gun lover.

It takes a certain amount of guts to go to your class reunions.

I 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.

The Nixon administration kept a nasty eye on our show... Cops would come by - often just in time to see the act they wanted to see.

It's not always easy to identify your own voice. It comes with time.

Every time I nostalgically try to regain my liking of John McCain, he reaches into his sleaze bag and pulls out something malodorous.

History is not reassuring on the subject of the longevity of seemingly lasting great nations, is it?

I always wanted to live in a haunted house.

I'm not all that enthralled by show business, and I'm not that much of a highbrow.

Every time someone says, 'You know, we really ought to get together,' if I were really honest, I would ask 'Why?'