Quotes (I like):

"Don't go digging things up in case they won't let you bury them again." (27)

"A man sits in some museum somewhere and writes a harmless book about political economy and suddenly thousands of people who haven't read it are dying because the ones who did haven't got the joke. Knowledge is dangerous, which is why governments often clamp down on people who can think above a certain calibre." (30)

"This was the kind of country where, if you watched a large cliff for a few hundred years, you might see a rock drop off and you'd talk about it for ages." (77)
" ' We put all our politicians in prison as soon as they're elected. Don't you?'
'Why?'
'It saves time.'" (353)