The mark of a living thing is to be involved in opposites (impossibilities): the living cell that has to be continually adapting itself to stay alive, with its identity.

Diana Mosley (one of the noted Mitford sisters) was his stepmother. He is the eldest son of Sir Oswald Mosley 6th Baronet (an English politician known principally as the founder of the British Union of Fascists) and Lady Cynthia Mosley a daughter of Marquess Curzon of Kedleston Viceroy of India and Foreign Secretary.