Salinger's enormous popularity-particularly with the young - is because his wise and uncompromising voice comes through so clearly in his stories.

But in these troubled times, even the wise, collective voice of the council had faltered and fallen silent.

Some wise old inner voice, possibly Uncle Jim's, spoke loud enough to silence the primitive sucker within.

But this time no wise inner voice came to my aid.

Or maybe it wasn't about you at all, came that wise voice which she liked to think was Baima speaking in her mind.

His voice, wise and omniscient, sometimes sounds like the ancient voice of storytelling itself.

"When you grow up," he told Kieran in a wise and gentle voice, "you'll find that the stars are an excellent school for patience."

Robin, for answering my questions and, as always, for being a wise voice.

A man such as that becomes all things to you, and his wise voice becomes the law by which everything is measured.

Still a little girl's voice, but older and wiser now.