Brief Encounters Quotes

“What better substitute for real love than a sea of eager faces, beaming, laughing, applauding, and celebrating your existence?”
― Dick Cavett, Brief Encounters: Conversations, Magic Moments, and Assorted Hijinks

“I had Wayne as a guest on the show once. He may not remember, because I’m not sure he ever saw me. His eyes and consciousness seem to bypass you somehow, and focus somewhere in an undefined middle distance. The words sound memorized; he has an affect that might best be described as “nobody home.”
― Dick Cavett, Brief Encounters: Conversations, Magic Moments, and Assorted Hijinks