“Innovation is strict common sense with wild imagination.”

— Vanna Bonta

Inventors Digest http://www.inventorsdigest.com/archives/591#sthash.V1dXCLZB.dpuf magazine, interview; May 2009 issue

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Italian-American writer, poet, inventor, actress, voice art… 1958–2014

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