“Truth is too big a price to pay for the luxury of avoiding pain now and then.”
Rewards of Passion (Sheer Poetry) (1981)
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“Recognition of one’s fellows is distorted when money is prioritized as value itself.”
State of the Art (2000)
“Joy and Sorrow have as source the very soul who planned their course.”
Rewards of Passion (Sheer Poetry) (1981)
“The people knew what had made them human. It was not their shortcomings, but their hearts.”
Source: Flight: A Quantum Fiction Novel (1995), Ch. 60
“I gave my smile its liberty, with no curfew nor bounds.”
"I Gave My Smile"
Rewards of Passion (Sheer Poetry) (1981)
“Love is the eternal first breath.”
"Home"
Degrees: Thought Capsules and Micro Tales (1989)
“She listened to him all night and he found her fascinating.”
Degrees: Thought Capsules and Micro Tales (1989)
“To the degree it is efficient, a spaceship is elegant and beautiful.”
The Cosmos as a Poem (2010)
“Her countenance was like a newborn's, just taking everything in without filter or defense.”
Source: Flight: A Quantum Fiction Novel (1995), Ch. 15
“Innovation is strict common sense with wild imagination.”
Inventors Digest http://www.inventorsdigest.com/archives/591#sthash.V1dXCLZB.dpuf magazine, interview; May 2009 issue
“Truth may sometimes hurt, but delusion harms.”
from Rewards of Passion, quoted on Wilfred FX https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wilfred_%28U.S._TV_series%29, Season 3, Episode 6
“Life kissed her however it could.”
Source: Flight: A Quantum Fiction Novel (1995), Ch. 22
“Our true enemies are: ignorance and limitation.”
The Impact of Space Activities Upon Society (ESA Br) European Space Agency (2005)
“It was a perfect summer night. So good, it was true.”
Source: Flight: A Quantum Fiction Novel (1995), Ch. 48
Vanna Bonta Talks About Quantum fiction: Author Interview (2007)
“Pythagorean thought was dominated by mathematics, but it was also profoundly mystical.”
Vanna Bonta Talks About Quantum fiction: Author Interview (2007)
“Pay me for my work, but I don't do it for the money.”
"Gratuitous"
Shades of the World (1985)
“Events, time, forms, all propel the inner plot within each of us.”
Vanna Bonta Talks About Quantum fiction: Author Interview (2007)
Source: Zero Gravity interview (2006), Ch. 5
Degrees: Thought Capsules and Micro Tales (1989)
Vanna Bonta Talks Sex in Space (Interview - Femail magazine)
“I love the sound of those engines.”
about Formula One cars, quoted at Indy 500 Speedway. Hot Race, Hot Folks At Indy 500 Speedway http://press.xtvworld.com/article12011.html June 9, 2006
Vanna Bonta Talks About Quantum fiction: Author Interview (2007)
Space: What love's got to do with it - The Space Review (2004)
“Imagine gazing at Earth or other space views.”
Vanna Bonta Talks Sex in Space (Interview - Femail magazine)
Vanna Bonta Talks Sex in Space (Interview - Femail magazine)
Vanna Bonta Talks Sex in Space (Interview - Femail magazine)
Vanna Bonta Talks Sex in Space (Interview - Femail magazine)
“Gods were crucified, scientists and inventors tortured and persecuted, artists slandered.”
Source: Flight: A Quantum Fiction Novel (1995), Ch. 23
“Sex is as personally unique to individuals as it is universal.”
Vanna Bonta Talks Sex in Space (Interview - Femail magazine)
“A phoneme, an utterance, could be said to be the beginning of poetry's evolutionary chain.”
The Cosmos as a Poem (2010)
“Experiencing that in general was curiously amazing.”
Vanna Bonta Talks Sex in Space (Interview - Femail magazine)
Source: Flight: A Quantum Fiction Novel (1995), Ch. 28
Vanna Bonta Talks Sex in Space (Interview - Femail magazine)
Vanna Bonta Talks Sex in Space (Interview - Femail magazine)
"Vacuum"
Degrees: Thought Capsules and Micro Tales (1989)
“I'm not an intellectual, I'm just a writer.”
Source: Flight: A Quantum Fiction Novel (1995), Ch. 17
“Sex in space is not just a good idea, it's survival.”
Quoted by MSNBC during a panel discussion at the Space Frontier Foundation's NewSpace 2006 conference. Outer-space sex carries complications http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/14002908/ns/technology_and_science-space/t/outer-space-sex-carries-complications, by Alan Boyle; MSNBC July 24, 2006
The Universe - Sex in Space (2008)
Flight: A Quantum Fiction Novel (1995)
“Sex in space is more than a Big Bang.”
Femail Magazine June 2008. Vanna Bonta Talks Sex in Space http://www.femail.com.au/vanna-bonta-talks-sex-in-space.htm
“Fame is not the glory; virtue is the goal, and Fame only a messenger to bring more to the fold.”
Degrees: Thought Capsules and Micro Tales (1989)
