Pat: Do you know William Faulkner?
Michel: Someone you slept with?
Pat: No, of course not, silly.
Michel: Then the hell with him. Take your sweater off.
Pat: He’s a writer. He wrote The Wild Palms.
Michel: Take your sweater off.
Pat: The last line is beautiful…. “Between grief and nothing, I’ll take nothing.” What would you choose?
Michel: I’d pick nothing. It’s not better. Grief’s a compromise. I want all or nothing.
Breathless (1960)




