The Burr in the Burgh

Of all the books, you've read, wanted to read or wanted to write, which has the most memorable first sentences?

Naturally, someone has compiled a list of the top 100. Someone's choices for the top 100, that is. See it here.

There are a lot of books on there which I've never read and many which I have. But it does happen to be the case that a couple of my all-time favorites are included.

From Anna Karenina by Lev Tolstoy:
"Happy families are all alike; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way."

And number 47, from Voyage of the Dawn Treader by Clive Staples Lewis:
"There was a boy called Eustace Clarence Scrubb, and he almost deserved it."

What are yours?