Vanna Bonta Quotations

It's weird how people who are the least close to me or who've never even met me purport to be experts on the real me; and then, sadly, there are those who could be in touch with me but prefer to gossip with strangers about me instead.

Space is as infinite as we can imagine, and expanding this perspective is what adjusts humankinds focus on conquering our true enemies, the formidable foes: ignorance and limitation.

Life is a canvas of many strokes where shades from different palettes meet into a picture so concrete that some forget it is their own, so become framed themselves.

Gossip can be entertaining: occasionally, I've heard the most fascinating things about myself I never knew.

Looking up and out, how can we not respect this ever-vigilant cognizance that distinguishes us: the capability to envision, to dream, and to invent? the ability to ponder ourselves? and be aware of our existence on the outer arm of a spiral galaxy in an immeasurable ocean of stars? Cognizance is our crest.

Greed is the lack of confidence of one's own ability to create.

We can have a World War, I see absolutely no reason why we shouldn't have a World Party.

You have to know you can first. How comes later.

Atheism is a religion itself complete with fanatics and bigots.

The song 'What Goes Up' was inspired as I was playing the piano and reminiscing about the Spaceship One launches I witnessed in the Mojave desert. It is an awesome thing to comprehend the magnitude of what a human being dreams and imagines can be realized.

Sex in space is not just a good idea, it's survival.

I didn't have a Barbie doll, so I played with eternity.

If you were the sky, I would unfurl myself in you, as a rainbow of colors yet unseen. I would become oceans of stars in your night.

Love takes no sides but understands them all.

Most of the time I quote myself. It's not arrogance, it's a writer's job.

People use ridicule to belittle something perceived big enough to fear.

Poets can't worry about popularity since loving humanity involves saying what some people don't want to hear.

Life's turns are somehow an opportunity to get better at something.

LIFE: Love, Intelligence, Fun, Evolution in that order.

Reserve the right to make up a word where none has gone before.

When ridicule is shrill, remember people only bother to belittle something they perceive big enough to fear.

When my car broke down, I realized the engine was nothing more than a giant jigsaw puzzle.

When accused of being an unrealistic optimist, say the sun never stops shining.

Fame is not the glory; virtue is the goal, and fame only a messenger to bring more to the fold.

Violent attacks on poets by mediocre pundits are howling protest at vibrant trembling, genius that disturbed their slumber.

There's more truth in comedy than in tragedy.

Some say it's the sun, some say it's the rain, but I know it's Love that makes things grow.

Banks have become society's new pushers, grooming money addicts.

A writer should not subject one's self to mediocrities posing as experts, such as semi-pro so-called writers, editors or critics dedicated to attacking artists. If these so-called authorities were any good, they'd be inspiring readers instead.

There's a point for things we create where they don't belong to us anymore; when others love them, they belong to the world.

For every action there is an equal and opposite reaction. Sadly, after seeing glowing praise, some jerk to equally opposite reaction, hatred ... astonishingly before even reading the book.

Once an editor chased after me, red lights, siren, trying to write me a ticket because I made up a word, but poetic license is irrevocable.

Slander is the only way some have of feeling close to accomplishment.

Society's indolent, mediocre, or even criminal are not hated with daily public fury reserved for those who accomplish and achieve.

The intent to harm another behind hate-speak vetoes its credibility.

The impact of space activities is nothing less than the galvanizing of hope and imagination for human life continuum into a future of infinite possibility.

Slander reveals the greatest truth about the coward implementing it.

Do it right, regret nothing.

Quantum fiction is any story that witnesses life and the human experience on a subatomic level.

It is indisputable that evolved thinking recognizes the universality of Life.

High finance trembles in its boots whenever there is some political complication.

If a dishonest creep wants to tap dance, give them the spotlight and a mirror.

If form follows function, as we know it does in this Universe, then consciousness will adapt to whatever form it requires in order to function. Hopefully, it will also develop its fundamental function; what that is may be debatable within many schools of thought, but it is indisputable that evolved thinking recognizes the universality of Life.

Some animals on Earth regurgitate as opposed to vomit, i.e., stomach contents flow up into the esophagus without any forceful abdominal contractions. What I experienced in zero gravity was similar to this, expulsion without the heaves.

The real story is not the plot, but how the characters unfold by it.

Mediocrity inspires neither great love nor hate.

Self worship is different from self love.

Gifts have ribbons, not strings.

Poetry isn't an activity, it's a way life is lived.

Poets can't worry about popularity since loving life and humanity involves saying what some people don't want to hear.

It is interesting to note that poetry, a literary device whose very construct involves the use of words, is itself the word of choice by persons grasping to describe something so beautiful it is marvelously ineffable.

Poetry is a subset of a Cosmos, which in itself, is a poem.

Poetry is our heart, our spirit, our soul. Call it whatever; without it, everything else is nothing but hardware.

I'm not an intellectual, I'm just a writer.

Style of the future is the convergence of function and fashion.

Nature abhors a vacuum but why do most people hasten to fill in the blanks with garbage.

There are abundantly more English professors in the world than there are authors.

It is an awesome thing to comprehend the magnitude of the fact that what a human being dreams and imagines can be realized. The power of that truth needs to be directed toward our creation of a future that is worthy of true human value and the world civilization.

Invention requires both disciplines, strict common sense and wild imagination.

Ridicule is a public confession of fear.

Slander is the tool of cowards.

The great thing about knowing you're wrong is the moment you realize it, you're right.

Little did the artist know, who neglected his appearance in favor of his work, that the years would produce a breed that spent hours meticulously acquiring a neglected look to appear like an artist.

On Earth, much of the wrenching discomfort of emesis, apart from the sensation of nausea itself, is from the coordination of many muscles it takes to counter gravity.

It's vital as we postulate and work toward exploration and human settlement beyond Earth. I like to think of the possibilities of sustaining humanity's continuum, with preserved recorded history way beyond the life of our Sun.

Our neighborhood - this solar system, the cosmos, actually - is so much more vast and amazing than the paltry headlines, insanity, and politics crammed at us daily as so-called news. The beauty of the hood and discoveries that await us are deserving of our attention and mandatory to our survival as a species.

Thought has no gender.

A poet's first contract is with truth.

Any literature, when it arrives at being good literature, transcends genre.

Events, time, forms, all propel the inner plot within each of us.

Unfortunately, in our society, power means the ability to dominate and oppress.

Poetry absolves spirituality from the dividedness of religions and provides us with a sanctuary that excludes no one.

We call interconnected order beautiful. When interrupted, we call it chaos.

People who worship only themselves get a slick, polished look -- like monuments. Too bad they had to go so soon.

Fame is not the glory! Virtue is the goal, and fame only a messenger, to bring more to the fold.

She listened to him all night and he found her fascinating.

There is only now. And look! How rich we are in it.

Your heart is the beacon, your heart is the storm. Dare to embrace it; you'll never be torn.

How do we define consciousness, or what has been called the human soul or the spirit, if it can't be quantified as matter or a particle? ... it can be quantified or observed just by a process of elimination.

Your mouth on mine our bridge to cross and serve where we would go. Utopia of sensations the flesh could never know.

Love is not blind. Love sees what is most true

Don't count your check-ins before they cash.

The greatest justice in life is to be who one is.

Pay me for my work, but I dont do it for the money

I'm in love with the whole world.

Penalty is different than punishment, because it offers something with which to regain honor.

Words are contact with other beings. I see a word that says something I've noticed, seen, felt, obserevd, and I capture it; "I need that word!"

Genuine art and business are the ultimate partnership toward catalyzing social evolution and well-being.

Language achieves soul only when it's applied as a tool, used by those who imbue it with what they have had the courage and honesty to perceive and feel.

Ideals do exist, the rest is just temporary interruption.

Ridicule has historically proven itself a rickety fence for great ideas.

Poverty and War have no excuse.

How enlightened is wearing God like some do Versace?

Any leader who doesn't support the heart of evolving humanity is not a leader worthy of being followed.

Where you see valid achievements or virtue being attacked, it's by someone viewing them as a mirror of their own inadequacy instead of an inspiring beacon for excellence.

Patience is being friends with Time.

Sometime is that appointment, the final one to meet. Let's color all with love, for Time is naught but fleet.

I consider myself more exportant than important.

Love is the eternal first breath.

Only Love conceives things worthy enough to stand greater than individual accomplishment.