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

— Dick Cavett

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

— Dick Cavett

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

— Dick Cavett

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

— Dick Cavett

I'm sure I have 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.

— 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

I think we live in an age of increasing mediocrity.

— 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

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

— Dick Cavett

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.

— Dick Cavett