I thought I’d try a new category, listing things I for some reason are worth pointing out. But since I mostly end up mumbling a lot when something asks me about something general, like movies or bands (that is probably because I have very varied taste in such things) the categories will be a bit more vague. Anyway, the best opening line of a novel is:

The sky above the port was the color of television, tuned to a dead channel.

It is the opening line of William Gibson’s Neuromancer. There are few lines that have set the ambience of a scene so efficiently, and in so few words. I really can’t put my finger on why, maybe it is because days with skies befitting that description often come with a certain mood.