I just realized that this week it is 20 years since I quit my last full-time day-job to become an independent artist.

I'm living proof that you can survive it. Without starving, even.

"We know the secrets of the Fire Swamp. We can live there happily for some time."
--Westley in *The Princess Bride*

(That's my favorite quotation for summing up my experience of living "on the edge" as an artist who has intentionally severed his ties with financial security.)