Humans are inscrutable. Infinitely unpredictable. This is what makes them dangerous.

Johannes Cabal would kill me for saying this, but he's my favorite Zeppelin-hopping detective. The fellow has got all the charm of Bond and the smarts of Holmes--without the pesky morality.

It's dangerous to be people-blind.

It's hard to wipe your eyes when you have whirring buzzsaws for hands.

Humans are inscrutable. Infinitely unpredictable. This is what makes them dangerous.

...humanity learns true lessons only in cataclysm.

I was writing a scene where a guy was choking another guy to death. You can go online and type 'chokeholds' and watch scenes where martial artists choke each other out. You can hear what noises they make when they go unconscious, see how their bodies flop and everything. YouTube is amazing for the more detailed stuff.