A propos of nothing, my own favorite first line is a dead tie.
Yeah, sure, Absalom, Absalom! is there. But, Bill’s sprawling opener runs neck-and-neck with a crowd favorite and the model of the hook, One Hundred Years of Solitude:
Many years later, as he faced the firing squad, Colonel Aureliano Buendia was to remember that distant afternoon when his father took him to discover ice.
Truly, magic.
Source: Wikipedia
