Favorite Opening Lines

Here’s a fun, if meaningless, exercise for a Friday evening if you happen to be sitting at home reading blogs.  What is your favorite opening line from a novel?  Is it the famous “Call me Ishmael”?  How about “It was the best of times, it was the worst of times…”?  Maybe “All this happened, more or less”? 

I think my favorite from a novel is “The cold passed reluctantly from the earth, and the retiring fogs revealed an army stretched out on the hills, resting.”  It’s from The Red Badge of Courage by Stephen Crane.  Sucks you right in, doesn’t it?  Of course, I don’t read a lot of novels anymore. 

What’s your favorite opening?