Dick Cavett: As time goes by, I realize that my sense of time has always been askew. The passage of time doesn't work somehow for me. I expect people to be the same age, for example, that they were the last time I saw them.

A friend of mine and I were going out into the woods once in East Hampton some years ago,  and he was showing off his rifle collection, and with him was a little 7-year-old boy. Well, I saw my friend some years later, and I said, "How's the little fellow?" He said, "The little fella is head of surgery at Honolulu Hospital." And I was stunned. I telescope time in some ridiculous way.

When you're a kid, time drags like hell. I remember I got sick once and had to miss the circus! And some well-meaning relative said, "Well, it'll be here next year." You think, "Next year!" A year takes an eon to pass! But now, they seem to go by every 3 months at best.

Well, I don't feel old. It's like I'm not getting my money's worth out of being 70. I don't feel like an old man. I feel like a young man that has something wrong with him. So, how would I summarize? I guess it would be this. Don't worry about aging - it's not gonna go on forever.