Malcolm: I have a very quirky relationship with the whole -- I wasn't an early reader. My father, I felt, was a very heavy-handed father. Both his activism, his politics, and his ideas about schooling were things that I resisted, I think, by nature. I'm a very resistant person. I have to kind of come to certain realities on my own. Early on, I resisted them. Then sure enough, I came around. Then I began to see the light in its ways and then became quite a heavy reader. I always felt like I had something that I wanted to write, but I lacked the courage to do it. It took me going on a professional route after I graduated college and seeing the flesh and blood of what the realities of the professional life looked like, even for a business or a profession that was valued and supposed to be exciting and new. I'm referring to internet and software in the mid-nineties. I was very disillusioned with it and didn't find much meaning in it and figured that if I was going to be miserable, I may as well be miserable pursuing my dreams. I think that was the first step.