Julian Assange is looking for a first sentence for his book. That's one suggestion.
I've never read anything of Faulkner, but it's hard to beat the first line of one of his short stories, The Vengeance of Nicrotis": "Hushed were the streets of many-peopled Thebes."
Kurt Vonnegut had some good ones too, among them this one: "This is the tale of a meeting of two lonesome, skinny, fairly old white men on a planet that was dying fast."
Of course, Faulkner and Vonnegut both wrote fiction, and we don't know quite into which genre Assange's book will fit.
Jeralyn offers this suggestion:
As the cell door closed behind me and I faced the cold, dank space, I began to contemplate the brunt of the awesome power of government, once it has descended to unleash its wrath.
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