Elric knew that in reality Chaos was the harbinger of stagnation, for though it changed constantly, it never progressed. - Michael Moorcock

I have never had trouble with conflicting interpretations of my work. Once the story is published, it belongs to the reader.

I was wondering what made a decent English army officer turn into a desperate revolutionist overnight," I smiled.
"It happens to many like that," he said. "I have seen them. But you have to show them so much injustice first... Nobody wants to believe that the world is cruel—or that one's own kind are cruel. Not to know cruelty is to remain innocent, eh? And we should all like to remain innocent. A revolutionist is a man who, perhaps, fails to keep his innocence but so desperately wants it back that he seeks to create a world where all shall be innocent in that way.

Sometimes he would admit that one form of superstition was as good as another, but he still preferred to rely on the forms he knew.