Dick Cavett

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

— Dick Cavett

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.

— Dick Cavett

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

— Dick Cavett

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.

— Dick Cavett

Why are people afraid of ghosts? 'Ooh, no, I wouldn't want to see one! I'd be too scared' - accompanied by a tremolo of fear in the voice - is the common reaction. This puzzles me. I'd think anyone would welcome he opportunity. I've never heard of a ghost hurting anybody.

— Dick Cavett

I don't think you could say now that ABC is crasser than the other two networks. But as long as people will accept crap, it will be financially profitable to dispense it. It becomes an ever-descending spiral.

— Dick Cavett

It's a wonderful job for people who have never had a nervous breakdown but always wanted one.

— Dick Cavett

Why don't you fold it five ways and put it where the moon don't shine.

— Dick Cavett

There's so much comedy on television. Does that cause comedy in the streets?

— Dick Cavett

You can, after all, reduce the reasons for watching TV to but two: to be lulled, and to be stimulated. Some people do one sometimes, the other sometimes. Some people do all of one or all of the other.

— Dick Cavett

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

— Dick Cavett

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

— Dick Cavett