“Why are people afraid of ghosts? 'Ooh, no, I wouldn't want to see one!...” — Dick Cavett Quote

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.

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.

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

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

I'm the only talk show host, I think, if there's such a category in, what's called, the book of records, to have a guest die while we were taping the show, yeah.

When I look at Lake Michigan each July, I imagine the men of the Indianapolis visible on the horizon; dark heads, struggling arms, a cry and whirl of a world being remade. I feel an overwhelming sense of sadness, accompanied by a desire to yell out that they will be rescued.

Talent has to be accompanied by effort as well, and that's shared around when you work as a team.

Because of my language and the pantomime with which most Europeans accompany their speech, I was catalogued as a heavy.

My job isn't to fix or rescue or to save. It's to accompany, see people, listen to them.

President Trump has harnessed the fear and prejudice that have accompanied every wave of immigrants in United States history, and stoked those fears to further his own agenda.