- Pop Benson: News is what happens. What's the difference whether it happens 50 years ago... or tomorrow?
- Lawrence 'Larry' Stevens: You mean Will happen tomorrow.
- Pop Benson: No. Time is only an illusion! Look, March 18, 1875. To the people then, this was the future; wasn't it? Well, suppose we were all living on that date in 1875... and I arrived with this book. I can tell you everything that will happen.