Do freshman philosophy classes nowadays debate updated versions of the age-old questions? Like, how could a merciful God allow AIDS, childhood cancers, tsunamis and Dick Cheney?

More Quotes by Dick Cavett

To label me an intellectual is a misunderstanding of what that is.

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.

My IQ is somewhere between Spiro Agnew's and Albert Einstein's.

I don't feel old. I feel like a young man that has something wrong with him.

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.