Laura Escudé

“Practicing your craft in expert fashion is noble, honorable, and satisfying. And I'll generally take a stand-up mercenary who takes pride in his professionalism over an artist any day.”
― Anthony Bourdain, Kitchen Confidential: Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly

“Without stories, we wouldn't be human beings at all”
― Philip Pullman, His Dark Materials

“As long as there is still one beggar around, there will still be myth.”
― Walter Benjamin, The Arcades Project