Dick Cavett Brain Quotations

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.

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

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.

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?

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.