
INTERVIEWER: Do you have any beliefs in otherworldly things—spirits around the house, etcetera?
MAURICE SENDAK: No.
INTERVIEWER: What are your beliefs in afterlife?
SENDAK: Death.
INTERVIEWER: Death? Blackness? Void?
SENDAK: Yes.

INTERVIEWER: Do you have any beliefs in otherworldly things—spirits around the house, etcetera?
MAURICE SENDAK: No.
INTERVIEWER: What are your beliefs in afterlife?
SENDAK: Death.
INTERVIEWER: Death? Blackness? Void?
SENDAK: Yes.
Succinct. I’ll take this as his nod towards atheism? :o)
Gorgeous.