- Andrew Clements: [Andrew hears about a robbery, and imagines his superhero alter-ego might be able to help] If I'd only been there, Ultra-Man could have stopped that robbery.
- Dr. Benjamin Jeffcoate: Andrew, there are hundreds of robberies all over the world every day. You can't arrange to be at every one of them. You'd have to quit school.
- Andrew Clements: Whatever it takes!