Call me Ishmael.

It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen.

All happy families are alike; each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.

It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife.

In my younger and more vulnerable years my father gave me some advice that I've been turning over in my mind ever since.

Mrs Dalloway said she would buy the flowers herself.

It was the best of times, it was the worst of times.

I am an invisible man.

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

Ships at a distance have every man's wish on board.

In the beginning, sometimes I left messages in the street.

Last night I dreamt I went to Manderley again.