Dick Cavett Brain Quotations

The brain process that results in a joke materializing where no joke was before remains a mystery. I'm not aware of any scholarly, scientific or neurological studies on the subject.

Music bypasses the brain and goes straight to the heart. I wish my life had more of it.

The authority of depression is horrifying. I felt like my brain was busted and that I could never feel good again. I really thought that I was never gonna heal.

It's a tribute to the human brain that anyone is able to function out there on television in a talk situation that is entirely artificial.

Does anything show the complexity of the miraculous brain more than that weird curiosity, the sleep-protection dream?

Statistically, I'd say comedy writers are perhaps the sanest category of show people. And why not? They make big money, and although it's not an easy trade - particularly when you're at your galley oar five days a week - it's easier on the nerves and the psyche than living with the brain-squeezing pressure and cares of being the Star.