22 Quotes by Michael Lee West

As my daddy said, soil is the basis of everything.

I should not have lied, but I did. Later, those lies came back to haunt me, bread cast on the water, tenfold.

She, if anyone, was on a hell-bound train. I mean, if you're masquerading as a do-gooder, why not go all the way?

It seemed clear that people in love lived in constant jeopardy. They were either making love or making each other crazy.

There was another thing I had forgotten about the South: It was the one place on earth where an unsuspecting person could get killed by kindness.

The first time I saw my father-in-law's cotton, I though of the Original Sin, gardening being the root of the South's downfall.

But I knew better: No matter where you go, the past floods back. You can try like the dickens, but you can't escape fate.

A tofu birthday cake dosn't wreak a marriage; but if you cut the tofu into lewd shapes, you are probably asking for trouble. Looking back, I think we stopped being kind to each other. And we became competitors....Love cannot be sustained under these conditions, any more that yeast will proof in cold water.

There is nothing harder than being your own rock.