War continues to divide people to change them forever and I write about it both because I want people to understand the absolute futility of war the 'pity of war' as Wilfred Owen called it.

I hate war as only a soldier who has lived it can only as one who has seen its brutality its futility its stupidity.

Nothing leads so straight to futility as literary ambitions without systematic knowledge.

Dusting is a good example of the futility of trying to put things right. As soon as you dust the fact of your next dusting has already been established.

Any story about revenge is ultimately a story about forgiveness redemption or the futility of revenge.

There is an increasingly pervasive sense not only of failure but of futility. The legislative process has become a cruel shell game and the service system has become a bureaucratic maze inefficient incomprehensible and inaccessible.