"If you let the fly live, the spider is g…" — Millions Knives Quote

"Doesn't seem to matter how far I travel, my destiny is always followed by blood and gunsmoke. The result is always the same every time, mountains of death and debris."

— Vash the Stampede · Trigun

"If you keep saving butterflies, spiders will starve to death! But... wanting to save them both is a contradiction. What would you rather do? Keep deliberating? The butterfly will be eaten in the meantime."

— Millions Knives · Trigun

"I meditate diligently every morning. The subject is Life and Love. I quit after three seconds."

— Vash the Stampede · Trigun

"But you're wrong, no one ever has the right to take the life of another person. No one, no one ever has the right to take the life of another. No one. And everyone, everyone deserves a future. Don't you think that's true? Please, please, it's time to stop the fighting now. It's up to us to end the cycle of hatred. If we don't work to end the sorrow this time, then the cycle of pain will just continue on. When we were all born, were any of us made to steal or cause others harm?"

— Meryl Stryfe · Trigun

"It must be the way you look, Vash the Stampede. Your very existence seems to cause me undue irritation."

— Legato Bluesummers · Trigun

"Thanks a lot, dream wrecker."

— Vash the Stampede · Trigun