Read from a starbucks cup on a plane ride to JFK

I used to feel so alone in the city.  All those gazillons of people and then me, on the outside.  Because how do you meet a new person? I was very stumped by this for many years.   And then I realized, you just say, “Hi.”  They may ignore you.  Or you may marry them. And that possibility is worth that one word.”
Augusten Burroughs - Author of Running with Scissors.