I think a successful adaptation rises or falls on the work presented. If people need to read the book to understand the play, I didn't complete the job.

Music and text have several commonalities, and one is meter and rhythm. Both spoken word and music have certain regularities, and they can be sub-divided rhythmically.

After I write a sequence, I just open the script and then sit at the piano keyboard and "play" the script. (And because I also draw and paint, sometimes I sketch out the action as well.)

Basically, I composed the musical structure in one pass. The rest was editing and small adjustments. And when the play was read by actors with the music, the sequence timed-out perfectly.

After each performance of an Austin Shakespeare production, audiences are invited to stay for a ten-minute discussion of the work. And this tradition continues in our New York run.

I really enjoy fusing text and music.

Sometimes, I stood at the front of the E train, watching the tunnel ahead, imagining what Anthem would look like on stage.

Most of Ayn Rand's major characters are already formed at the start of the stories.

I always thought the story [Anthem] would work in three dimensions - and studying that cut material was very useful.

In the original novel [ Anthem], the story unfolds in the mind of a single character. Maybe that's why Ayn Rand called the work a poem.

I certainly did my best to bring the story [Anthem] to life in another medium.

Everybody dies. It’s no risk to lose your life. You knew it was lost from the beginning.

Your destiny is calling on you to surround yourself with people who see moving forward as the only option in life.

As you heat the planet up, it's just like boiling a pot.

You're mine," she whispered. "Mine, as I'm yours. And if we die, we die. All men must die, Jon Snow. But first, we'll live.

Sounds of life and movement, people getting ready and people giving up, the sound of hope and the sound of hanging on, and behind them all, the quiet, deadly ticking of a thousand hungry clocks.

The best thing about baseball is that you can do something about yesterday tomorrow.

The world is not outside you.

Because it's simple, I love you, and I don't want to keep pretending like I don't. -Rose to Dimitri

I lose patience with long stories. I get people who go, "Crumb, do some long stories, do a graphic novel." Novel-schmovel.

Agreeable society is the first essential in constituting the happiness and of course the value of our existence.