64 Quotes by Keigo Higashino

It would destroy the very meaning of a family unit if everyone with their separate ways over fleeting feelings of anger or impatience.

marriage meant offering daily salvation to a man standing on the gallows

Murder isn't the most logical way to escape a difficult situation. It only leads to a different difficult situation.

What we have here is a very basic problem. The only way to make use of underground resources is to mine them, and if you mine them, they're going to damage the local flora and fauna. That's as true under the water as it is on land, but it hasn't stopped us - that is, mankind - from doing it over and over again. That's a fact. You just need to make a choice.

It excited my curiosity. And I believe there is no greater sin than to leave one's curiosity unsatisfied. Curiosity is a fuel that powers the engine of human advancement.

It seems to me that you have two options: hide the fact that anything happened, or hide the fact that you had anything to do with it.

Kusanagi had met plenty of good, admirable people who’d been turned into murderers by circumstance. There was something about them he always seemed to sense, an aura that they shared. Somehow, their transgression freed them from the confines of a mortal existence, allowing them to perceive the great truths of the universe. At the same time, it meant they had one foot in forbidden territory. They straddled the line between sanity and madness.

The world is full of mysteries. And the joy of uncovering even the slightest mystery is incomparable to any other joy you will ever know.

Tunnel vision is no way to make it as a researcher. Your assumptions are your worst enemies. Trust them too much, and you’ll fail to see what’s right under your nose.