Quotes from Rabindranath Maharaj

I remember Uncle Boysie telling me that Canada was so safe the policemen wore nice red outfits and rode on horses but according to Roy the country was like Gotham City with crooks around every corner… I pictured them as shady Frank Miller characters with bulging muscles and machine guns poking out from trench coats but the photograph from the papers was of a group of boys my age. They kind of resembled some of my friends from Mayaro too.

This village is a real trap. Bit by bit it will eat up every single person who remain here. This place will never change.

And the family who had refused to acknowledge the woman's illness and who had all immunized themselves from concern by conceiving their own problems, now performed their duties.

Look at the way things are now. Just a set of crab in barrel and all of a sudden one crab just appear with a jacket and tie and telling everybody that he is not a crab any more. Ridiculous little place with ridiculous little people.

Your legacy. Hard work but honest. You don't have to outsmart anybody or depend on anyone when you own one plot of land. 'Cause it's always there.

I had no real idea I was going to become a writer. It was just a game for me. I just liked pretending, daydreaming and imagining.

Immigrants use the library often. A lot of them don't have access to books and Internet at home. They seem so disconnected to the city.

I don't want to sound too Oprah-ish or anything like that, but I really believe that if you have the power to imagine particular things, you have the ability to transform them.