206 Quotes by Dick Cavett

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

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.

Every writer knows that unless you were born gifted with either supreme confidence or outsize ego, handing in your work holds, in some cases, admitted terror. If that’s too strong, at least fairly high anxiety.

I find most ‘sacred music’ pretty dismal.

There are online forms you can fill out to send to your lawmakers, demanding that nothing – nothing at all or in any way – be done about any guns whatever, anywhere.

I think I’d be pretty easy to write for.

I eat at this German-Chinese restaurant and the food is delicious. The only problem is that an hour later you’re hungry for power.

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.

Every comic can report a few ‘gift from the gods’ moments.