favorite first lines

I finally got a chance to go to one of my favorite places ever: the library. Between summer school, family visits and classes, I never got a chance to go & check out a few books I've been meaning to read. Plus, I already had a stack of four books that I already own to finish reading and I bought the six Scott Pilgrim graphic novels to read before the movie (and to possibly add to the classroom library).

For some reason, going to the library got me thinking about the first lines of a book. Then I thought about my favorite first lines of books I've read.
Here are a few that I love. What are yours?

"Ships at a distance have every man's wish on board. For some they come in with the tide. For others they sail forever on the horizon, never out of sight, never landing until the Watcher turns his eyes away in resignation, his dreams mocked to death by Time. That is the life of men." -Their Eyes were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston (I really hope I get to teach this novel again some day)

"It was inevitable: the scent of bitter almonds always reminded him of the fate of unrequited love" -Love in the Time of Cholera by Gabriel Garcia Marquez

"Many years later, as he faced the firing squad, Colonel Aureliano Beundia was to remember that distant afternoon when his father took him to discover ice." -One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez

"If you really want to hear about it, the first thing you'll probably want to know is where I was born, and what my lousy childhood was like, and how my parents were occupied and all before they had me, and all that David Copperfield kind of crap, but I don't feel like going into it, if you want to know the truth." -The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger (I also hope that one day I'll be able to teach this again.)

Do you have any favorite first lines? Am I the only one that is slightly obsessed with the first lines of books? I mean, if they're really good, doesn't that just make the rest of the book better?

By the way, I went into the library to choose only two books, but ended up getting more than that. Typical. What I checked out: Alias Grace by Margaret Atwood, Franny and Zooey by J.D. Salinger (they FINALLY had it!), All the Pretty Horses by Cormac McCarthy and The Yiddish Policemen's Union by Michael Chabon.