Daily Inspiration Quote by Anne Rice

Evil gets the reputation of being deep because it’s easy. Anne Rice’s line punctures that glamour with a novelist’s clarity: the dark choice is always available, always ready-to-wear. It doesn’t require imagination, patience, or self-scrutiny. “Possible” is a cold word here, almost procedural, like a door that never locks. Rice is pointing at the way harm travels on inertia: resentment, hunger, power, boredom. You don’t have to build a philosophy to justify it; the world supplies one for free.

“Goodness is a difficulty” flips the moral script from purity to craft. Goodness isn’t an essence you possess; it’s a practice you attempt under pressure. Difficulty implies friction, cost, and repetition. It suggests goodness takes time, which makes it vulnerable in a culture that rewards speed, spectacle, and decisive cruelty dressed up as honesty. The subtext is unsentimental: being good isn’t about feeling kind, it’s about doing the harder thing when the easier thing would work just fine.

Rice’s context matters. Her fiction is drenched in seduction and sin, yet obsessed with conscience, longing, and the ache of moral choice. In a vampire universe where predation is literally built into the body, evil isn’t exotic; it’s default settings. That’s why this sentence lands: it treats morality less like a courtroom verdict and more like an everyday maintenance problem. Evil is one click away. Goodness takes work, and that’s the point.