Blooming death

Raymond Briggs has died.

"I don't have happy endings," Briggs [allegedly] told the Radio Times in 2012. "I create what seems natural and inevitable. The snowman melts, my parents died, animals die, flowers die. Everything does. There's nothing particularly gloomy about it. It's a fact of life."

"Allegedly" because the Gardian is not the only place I've found this attribution, but the link provided leads nowhere. Even internet links die ...