“You have fallen badly, señor gringo. Bribery is a very serious crime in this country. You will have to pay.”
“You could not bribe honest people, but bad people would accept bribery.”
“You will have bad times, but they will always wake you up to the stuff you weren't paying attention to.”
“When you've been falsely accused of serious crimes as often I have, you learn to recognize the oncoming inevitability of the next one.”
“and a charge of lying against someone whom you have always found truthful is a very serious thing; a very serious thing indeed.”
“Face it, if crime did not pay there would be very few criminals”