Quotes by Dick Cavett

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

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

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.

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.

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

“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.”