These are apparently the 100 best opening lines in literature. Good to see Bellow's Herzog, but scandalously no mention of his epic bildungsroman The Adventures of Augie March, which boasts, to my mind, the greatest opening salvo of them all:
I am an American, Chicago born – Chicago, that somber city – and go at things as I have taught myself, free-style, and will make the record in my own way: first to knock, first admitted; sometimes an innocent knock, sometimes a not so innocent.
The master at work: a manuscript page from The Adventures of Augie March
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