“There are worse things than being fat, and one of them is worrying about it all the time.”
But I Wouldn't Have Missed It for the World! The pleasures and perils of an unseasoned traveler (1973)
Source: The Heroin Diaries: A Year In The Life Of A Shattered Rock Star
“There are worse things than being fat, and one of them is worrying about it all the time.”
But I Wouldn't Have Missed It for the World! The pleasures and perils of an unseasoned traveler (1973)
from Pansy Hermiones, 2006
2010s
"Kubrick on Barry Lyndon : An interview with Michel Ciment" (1982) http://www.visual-memory.co.uk/amk/doc/interview.bl.html
"Bible Stories for Adults, No. 20: The Tower" p. 76 (originally published in Author’s Choice Monthly #8: Swatting at the Cosmos)
Short fiction, Bible Stories for Adults (1996)
“There are worse things than being mad.”
This appears not to be a Kerouac quote. It has not been found in any of Kerouac's published work.
Misattributed