Dick Cavett

It’s a rare person who wants to hear what he doesn’t want to hear.

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

Fake news is at an all time high. Where is their apology to me for all of the incorrect stories???

Television enables you to be entertained in your home by people you wouldn’t have in your home.

One of the more radical and interesting possible ways to limit the power of unaccountable media barons is to give journalists the power to elect editors and have seats on boards for workers and consumers when a title or programme gets particularly large and influential.

If you get good ratings, they’ll cover you even if you have nothing to say.

What I try to keep in mind is that there are going to be a lot of articles that are going to be misrepresentative of what I’m about as a person and as a writer.

I’ve met some great people that deal with me in the press. I’ve also met some people that were very dishonorable, frankly.

People at Facebook are fairly used to the press being nice to us or not nice to us.

If you are a little different, or a little outrageous, or if you do things that are bold or controversial, the press is going to write about you.

You know, it really doesn’t matter what the media write as long as you’ve got a young, and beautiful, piece of ass.

I notice in some of the newspapers that they have taken a bit of an interest in me. According to one headline Jeremy Corbyn welcomed the prospect of an asteroid wiping out humanity. Asteroids are pretty controversial and it is not the kind of thing I would want to rule out… without a full debate at conference and a review so can we have the debate later in the week.

You can’t interview my brother!… We can call this thing off – right now!

My people keep telling me I shouldn’t write letters like this to critics. The way I see it, critics get to say what they want to about my work, so why shouldn’t I be able to say what I want to about theirs?

When I hear about negative and false attacks, I really don’t invest any energy in them, because I know who I am.

With the press there is no ‘off the record’.

I think the 24-hour news cycle has helped exaggerate the differences between the parties. You can always find someone on TV somewhere carping about something. That didn’t happen 20 years ago.