My Favorite Sentences (Second in a Series)

I was taking a piss under the Hollywood sign, just underneath the second O, I think it was, and thinking about how much I loved it here above the city of angels.

From Jesse Sublett's harrowing, heartbreaking, and altogether awesome memoir, Never the Same Again: A Rock 'n' Roll Gothic (Boaz, 2004).

My Favorite Sentences (First in a Series)

The crime teletype machine was quiet at police headquarters... so I decided to sneak away and go to the opening of the opera.

From Naked City by Weegee (Essential Books, 1945)