条条大路通北京

In 2001, he wrote that he had fallen in love with Beijing, "irrationally and irretrievably."
Nearly a decade later, the love affair with China's capital is far from over.
"I feel like I don't want to miss out what's happening here. It's so exciting, this is the big story of our time and why would I not want to be in the epicenter of it? It's too interesting to leave."